Jeremiah, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Thus says the LORD to me, Go, and buy yourself a linen belt,
and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water. {13:2} So I
bought a belt according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my
waist. {13:3} The word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying,
{13:4} Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and
arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
{13:5} So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me. {13:6} It happened after many days, that the LORD said to me,
Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I
commanded you to hide there. {13:7} Then I went to the Euphrates, and
dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and
behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing. {13:8}
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {13:9} Thus says the
LORD, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride
of Jerusalem. {13:10} This evil people, who refuse to hear my words,
who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other
gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt,
which is profitable for nothing. {13:11} For as the belt clings to the
waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of
Israel and the whole house of Judah, says the LORD; that they may be
to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory:
but they would not hear. {13:12} Therefore you shall speak to them
this word: Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall
be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know
that every bottle shall be filled with wine? {13:13} Then you shall
tell them, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants
of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the
priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness. {13:14} I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the sons together, says the LORD: I will not pity, nor
spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. {13:15}
Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for the LORD has spoken. {13:16}
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before
your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for
light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross
darkness. {13:17} But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in
secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down
with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive. {13:18} Say to
the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for
your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory. {13:19}
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them:
Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away
captive. {13:20} Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the
north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
{13:21} What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those
whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows
take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? {13:22} If you say in your
heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your
iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
{13:23} Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. {13:24}
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the
wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This is your lot, the portion measured
to you from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood. {13:26} Therefore will I also uncover your
skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear. {13:27} I have seen
your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the
lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you,
Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
{14:1} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
drought. {14:2} Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in
black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. {14:3} Their
nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the
cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty;
they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. {14:4}
Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in
the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. {14:5}
Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young,
because there is no grass. {14:6} The wild donkeys stand on the bare
heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because
there is no herbage. {14:7} Though our iniquities testify against us,
work for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we
have sinned against you. {14:8} You hope of Israel, its Savior in the
time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as
a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? {14:9} Why should
you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? Yet you,
LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't
leave us. {14:10} Thus says the LORD to this people, Even so have they
loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore the
LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and
visit their sins. {14:11} The LORD said to me, Don't pray for this
people for their good. {14:12} When they fast, I will not hear their
cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not
accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence. {14:13} Then I said, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the
prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you
have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. {14:14}
Then the LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I
didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to
them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing
of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. {14:15} Therefore thus
says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I
didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this
land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. {14:16}
The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of
Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have
none to bury them--them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their
daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them. {14:17} You shall
say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken
with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. {14:18} If I go forth
into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter
into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both
the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no
knowledge. {14:19} Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul
loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and
behold, dismay! {14:20} We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. {14:21} Do
not abhor us, for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your
glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us. {14:22} Are there
any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the
sky give showers? Aren't you he, the LORD our God? therefore we will
wait for you; for you have made all these things.
{15:1} Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out
of my sight, and let them go forth. {15:2} It shall happen, when they
tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says
the LORD: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the
sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine;
and such as are for captivity, to captivity. {15:3} I will appoint
over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to kill, and the dogs
to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to
devour and to destroy. {15:4} I will cause them to be tossed back and
forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the
son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
{15:5} For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan
you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? {15:6} You have
rejected me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore have I
stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with
repenting. {15:7} I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the
land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people;
they didn't return from their ways. {15:8} Their widows are increased
to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the
mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish
and terrors to fall on her suddenly. {15:9} She who has borne seven
languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it
was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and their
residue will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the
LORD. {15:10} Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of
strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent,
neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me. {15:11}
The LORD said, Most certainly I will strengthen you for good; most
certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the
time of evil and in the time of affliction. {15:12} Can one break
iron, even iron from the north, and brass? {15:13} Your substance and
your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all
your sins, even in all your borders. {15:14} I will make them to pass
with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is
kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you. {15:15} LORD, you know;
remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take
me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered
reproach. {15:16} Your words were found, and I ate them; and your
words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called
by your name, the LORD, God of Hosts. {15:17} I didn't sit in the
assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of
your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. {15:18} Why is my
pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed?
Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
{15:19} Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring
you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the
precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to
you, but you shall not return to them. {15:20} I will make you to this
people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but
they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and
to deliver you, says the LORD. {15:21} I will deliver you out of the
hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the
terrible.
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