1486 - Jeremiah 13 part 1

 Jeremiah Chapter 13 part 1


This is what the Lord said to (Jeremiah):


 “Go and buy a linen loincloth, and put it on, but do not wash it.” 


So,I bought the loincloth, as the Lord directed me, and I put it on.


Then, the Lord gave me another message: 


“Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. 


Hide it there, in a hole, in the rocks.” 


So, I went and hid it, by the Euphrates, as the Lord had instructed me.


A long time afterward, the Lord said to me, 


“Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth, that I told you to hide there.” 


So, I went to the Euphrates ….and I dug it out of the hole, where I had hidden it. 


But now, it was rotting and falling apart. 


The loincloth was good for nothing.


Then, I received this message, from the Lord: 


“This is what the Lord says: 


This shows how I will rot away the pride, of Judah and Jerusalem. 


These wicked people refuse, to listen to me. 


They, stubbornly, follow their own desires …and worship other gods. 


Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing! 


As a loincloth, clings to a man’s waist, so I created Judah and Israel, to cling to me, says the Lord. 


They were to be my people, my pride, my glory—an honor to my name. 


But they would not listen to me.


“So tell them, 


‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 


May all your jars be filled with wine.’ 


And they will reply, ‘Of course! 


Jars are made to be filled with wine!’


“Then tell them, 


‘No, this is what the Lord means: 


I will fill everyone, in this land, with drunkenness—from the king, sitting on David’s throne, to the priests and the prophets, …right down, to the common people, of Jerusalem. 


I will smash them, against each other, even parents against children, says the Lord. 


I will not let my pity, or mercy, or compassion, keep me from destroying them.’ ”


The Holy Bible

New Living Translation 


Jeremiah 13:1–14


Praise be to God!


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