Jeremiah 13

1Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”Cross-references: Jer 13:11 · Jer 19:1 · Jer 27:2 · Ezek 4:1 · Heb 1:1

2So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.Cross-references: Prov 3:5 · Isa 20:2 · Ezek 2:8 · Hos 1:2 · John 13:6 · John 15:14

3Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying,Cross-references: Jer 13:8

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.”Cross-references: Ps 137:1 · Jer 51:63 · Mic 4:10

5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.Cross-references: Ex 39:42 · Ex 40:16 · Matt 22:2 · John 2:5 · Acts 26:19 · 2Tim 2:3 · +2 more

6After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”

7Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.Cross-references: Isa 64:6 · Jer 13:10 · Jer 24:1 · Ezek 15:3 · Zech 3:3 · Luke 14:34 · +2 more

8Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

9“Yahweh says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.Cross-references: Lev 26:19 · Job 40:10 · Prov 16:18 · Isa 2:10 · Isa 16:6 · Isa 23:9 · +11 more

10This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.Cross-references: Num 14:11 · 2Chr 36:15 · Ps 78:8 · Eccl 11:9 · Isa 3:24 · Jer 3:17 · +15 more

11For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 4:7 · Deut 26:18 · Deut 32:10 · Ps 81:11 · Ps 135:4 · +10 more

12“Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’Cross-references: Ezek 24:19

13Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.Cross-references: Ps 60:3 · Ps 75:8 · Isa 29:9 · Isa 49:26 · Isa 51:17 · Isa 51:21 · +6 more

14I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’”Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Judg 7:20 · 1Sam 14:16 · 2Chr 20:23 · Ps 2:9 · Isa 9:20 · +16 more

15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.Cross-references: Isa 28:14 · Isa 42:23 · Jer 26:15 · Joel 1:2 · Amos 7:15 · Acts 4:19 · +2 more

16Give glory to Yahweh 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 deep darkness.Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · Josh 7:19 · 1Sam 6:5 · Ps 44:19 · Ps 96:7 · Prov 4:19 · +15 more

17But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:11 · 1Sam 15:35 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 119:136 · Isa 63:11 · Jer 9:1 · +13 more

18Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 24:15 · 2Chr 33:12 · 2Chr 33:19 · 2Chr 33:23 · +9 more

19The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive.Cross-references: Lev 26:31 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 28:52 · Deut 28:64 · Josh 18:5 · 2Ki 25:21 · +8 more

20Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?Cross-references: Isa 56:9 · Jer 1:14 · Jer 6:22 · Jer 10:22 · Jer 13:17 · Jer 23:2 · +5 more

21What will you say when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?Cross-references: 2Ki 16:7 · Isa 10:3 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 39:2 · Jer 4:31 · +8 more

22If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.Cross-references: Deut 7:17 · Deut 8:17 · Deut 18:21 · Isa 3:17 · Isa 20:4 · Isa 47:2 · +15 more

23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.Cross-references: Prov 27:22 · Isa 1:5 · Jer 2:22 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 5:3 · Jer 6:29 · +3 more

24“Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:26 · Ps 1:4 · Ps 83:13 · +10 more

25This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”Cross-references: Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:37 · Job 20:29 · Ps 9:17 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 106:21 · +9 more

26Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.Cross-references: Jer 13:22 · Lam 1:8 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 23:29 · Hos 2:10

27I 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 will it yet be?”Cross-references: Ps 94:4 · Ps 94:8 · Prov 1:22 · Isa 57:7 · Isa 65:7 · Jer 2:20 · +23 more