JER-13:1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen
girdle, and put
it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
JER-13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD,
and put [it] on
my loins.
JER-13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time,
saying,
JER-13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon
thy loins, and
arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
JER-13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD
commanded me.
JER-13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD
said unto me,
Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I
commanded
thee to hide there.
JER-13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the
girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it
was
profitable for nothing.
JER-13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
JER-13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the
pride of
Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
JER-13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
which walk in the
imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve
them, and to
worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for
nothing.
JER-13:11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so
have I caused
to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house
of Judah,
saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for
a name, and
for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
JER-13:12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus
saith the LORD
God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they
shall say unto
thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled
with wine?
JER-13:13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD,
Behold, I will
fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit
upon David's
throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the
inhabitants of
Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
JER-13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the
sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor
have mercy, but
destroy them.
JER-13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD
hath spoken.
JER-13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and
before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye
look for
light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it]
gross darkness.
JER-13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in
secret places for
[your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with
tears, because
the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
JER-13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves,
sit down:
for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of
your glory.
JER-13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none
shall open
[them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall
be wholly
carried away captive.
JER-13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the
north: where
[is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
JER-13:21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for
thou hast taught
them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not
sorrows take thee,
as a woman in travail?
JER-13:22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these
things upon
me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, [and] thy
heels made bare.
JER-13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
spots? [then]
may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
JER-13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that
passeth away by
the wind of the wilderness.
JER-13:25 This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from
me, saith the
LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
JER-13:26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,
that thy shame
may appear.
JER-13:27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the
lewdness of
thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the
fields. Woe unto
thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it]
once [be]?
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