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Jeremiah 13 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1 - This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:2 - So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:3 - And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:5 - So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:8 - Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:9 - The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:13 - Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:15 - Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 - But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:18 - Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 - The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:20 - Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:21 - What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:22 - And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 - So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:25 - This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:26 - So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
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