Jeremiah 13 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Ruined Waistband

Jer 13:1Thus the LORD said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”

Jer 13:2

Jer 13:2So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the LORD and put it around my waist.

Jer 13:3

Jer 13:3Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,

Jer 13:4

Jer 13:4“Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to [fn]the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”

Jer 13:5

Jer 13:5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD had commanded me.

Jer 13:6

Jer 13:6After many days the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”

Jer 13:7

Jer 13:7Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.

Jer 13:8

Jer 13:8Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jer 13:9

Jer 13:9“Thus says the LORD, ‘Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jer 13:10

Jer 13:10‘This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

Jer 13:11

Jer 13:11‘For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for [fn]renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.’

Captivity Threatened

Jer 13:12

Jer 13:12“Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’

Jer 13:13

Jer 13:13then say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land—the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness!

Jer 13:14

Jer 13:14“I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares the LORD. “I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.”’”

Jer 13:15

Jer 13:15Listen and give heed, do not be haughty,
For the LORD has spoken.

Jer 13:16

Jer 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God,
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.

Jer 13:17

Jer 13:17But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive.

Jer 13:18

Jer 13:18Say to the king and the queen mother,
“Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”

Jer 13:19

Jer 13:19The cities of the Negev have been locked up,
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Wholly carried into exile.

Jer 13:20

Jer 13:20“Lift up your eyes and see
Those coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
Your beautiful sheep?

Jer 13:21

Jer 13:21“What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Former [fn]companions to be head over you?
Will not pangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?

Jer 13:22

Jer 13:22“If you say in your heart,
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity
Your skirts have been removed
And your heels have [fn]been exposed.

Jer 13:23

Jer 13:23“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.

Jer 13:24

Jer 13:24“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert wind.

Jer 13:25

Jer 13:25“This is your lot, the portion measured to you
From Me,” declares the LORD,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in falsehood.

Jer 13:26

Jer 13:26“So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face,
That your shame may be seen.

Jer 13:27

Jer 13:27“As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your prostitution
On the hills in the field,
I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean?”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(13:4)

Or, Parah, cf Josh 18:23; so through v 7

(13:11)

Literally: a name

(13:21)

Or, chieftains

(13:22)

Or, suffered violence

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