Jeremiah 13
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Linen Underwear
1This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment # Ex 39:27-29; Lv 16:4; Ezk 44:17-18 and put it on, # Lit around your waist but do not put it in water.” 2So I bought underwear as the Lord instructed me and put it on.
3Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time: 4“Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, # Lit wearing around your waist and go at once to the Euphrates # Perhaps a place near Anathoth with the same spelling as river and hide it in a rocky crevice.” # Jr 51:63 5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6A long time later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to the Euphrates and get the underwear that I commanded you to hide there.” 7So I went to the Euphrates and dug up the underwear and got it from the place where I had hidden it, but it was ruined — of no use at all.
8Then the word of the Lord came to me: 9“This is what the Lord says: Just like this I will ruin the great pride of both Judah and Jerusalem. # Lv 26:19 10These evil people, who refuse to listen to Me, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, # Jr 16:12 and who have followed other gods to serve and worship — they will be like this underwear, of no use at all. 11Just as underwear clings to one’s waist, so I fastened the whole house of Israel and of Judah to Me” # Dt 4:3-4; 10:20 — this is the Lord’s declaration — “so that they might be My people for My fame, praise, and glory, # Dt 26:19; Ezk 16:8-14 but they would not obey.
The Wine Jars
12“Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you, ‘Don’t we know that every jar should be filled with wine?’ 13And you will say to them: This is what the Lord says: I am about to fill all who live in this land — the kings who reign for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the residents of Jerusalem — with drunkenness. 14I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike” — this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.” # Lm 2:2,17,21; 3:43
The Lord’s Warning
15Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,
for the Lord has spoken.
16Give glory to the Lord your God # Jos 7:19; 1Sm 6:5; Ps 29:1-2
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom # Or brings a shadow of death
and makes thick darkness.
17But if you will not listen,
my innermost being will weep in secret
because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
for the Lord’s flock # Ps 80:1; 95:7; Jr 23:1-4 has been taken captive.
18Say to the king and the queen mother: # 2Kg 24:12; Jr 22:26
Take a humble seat,
for your glorious crowns
have fallen from your heads.
19The cities of the Negev are under siege;
no one can help them.
All of Judah has been taken into exile,
taken completely into exile.
20Look up and see
those coming from the north. # Jr 1:13-15; 4:6; 10:22
Where is the flock entrusted to you,
the sheep that were your pride?
The Destiny of Jerusalem
21What will you say when He appoints
close friends as leaders over you,
ones you yourself trained?
Won’t labor pains seize you, # Ps 48:6; Is 13:8; 21:3; 42:14; Jr 4:31; 6:24; 22:23; 30:6; 50:43; Mc 4:9-10; 1Th 5:3
as they do a woman in labor?
22And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me? ”
It is because of your great guilt # Jr 5:6; 30:15
that your skirts have been stripped off, # Ezk 16:37-39; Hs 2:3,10; Nah 3:5
your body exposed. # Lit your heels have suffered violence
23Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good, # Ec 5:1; Jr 4:22; Hs 5:4
you who are instructed in evil.
24I will scatter you # Lit them like drifting chaff # Jb 13:25; Ps 83:13; Is 40:24
before the desert wind.
25This is your lot,
what I have decreed for you —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
because you have forgotten Me # Ps 106:21; Jr 2:32; 18:15; Ezk 22:12; 23:35; Hs 8:14
and trusted in Falsehood. # = Baal # Jr 3:23
26I will pull your skirts up over your face
so that your shame might be seen. # Is 47:2-3; Jr 49:10; Nah 3:5
27Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, # Jr 2:23-24; 5:8
your heinous prostitution
on the hills, in the fields —
I have seen your detestable acts.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
You are unclean —
for how long yet? # Hs 8:5
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Jeremiah 13
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Linen Waistband and Wine Jugs
1Thus Adonai said to me: “Go, and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, and do not put it in water.”
2So I got a waistband in keeping with the word of Adonai, and put it on my waist.
3Then the word of Adonai came to me a second time, saying:
4“Take the waistband that you bought, which is on your waist, and get up, go to Perath and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
5So I went and hid it at Perath, as Adonai commanded me.
6Now it came to pass after many days that Adonai said to me: “Get up, go to Perath, and take the waistband that I commanded you to hide there.”
7So I went to Perath, dug it up and took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. But to my surprise, the waistband was marred, worth nothing at all.
8Then the word of Adonai came to me, saying,
9thus says Adonai: “Just so I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10This wicked people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their own heart, and go after other gods to serve them and worship them, will be just like this waistband—worth nothing at all.
11For just as the waistband clings to a man’s waist, so I will make the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me,” declares Adonai, “to be to Me a people, a name, a praise and a glory. But they would not obey.”
12Moreover, speak this word to them, thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: “Every jug should be filled with wine.” When they say to you, ‘Don’t we know very well that every jug should be filled with wine?’
13Then you will say to them, thus says Adonai, ‘I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land—even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the kohanim, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness.
14And I will smash them against each other, even fathers and sons,’ says Adonai. ‘I will show no pity, nor regret, nor compassion, to keep Me from destroying them.’”
Darkness and Downfall
15Hear and give ear! Do not be haughty! For Adonai has spoken.
16Give glory to Adonai your God, before it grows dark, and before your feet stumble on mountains at dusk. When you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, and turns it into deep darkness.
17But if you will not listen, my soul will sob in secret before such pride, and my eyes will weep bitterly and overflow with tears, for Adonai’s flock will be taken captive.
18Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”
19The towns of the South will be shut up, with no one to open them. All Judah is taken into exile— utterly swept into exile.
20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock given to you, Your beautiful sheep?
21What will you say, when He sets up the allies you cultivated for yourself, over you as head? Will not labor pains seize you, like a woman in travail?
22Suppose you say in your heart, “Why did these things happen to me?” Because of your great iniquity, your skirts are uncovered and your heels suffer violence.
23Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Or the leopard his spots? So, could you do good, that are accustomed to doing evil?
24“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw in the desert wind.
25This is your lot, the portion measured for you from Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “For you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
26Therefore I will also uncover your skirts over your face, expose your shame.
27Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution— on the hills in the field I have seen your loathsome acts. Oy you, Jerusalem! You are unclean! How much longer?”
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