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Read Jeremiah 13

World English Bible · 27 verses

¹ Yahweh said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Yahweh’s word came to me the second time, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ After many days, Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
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 ruined. It was profitable for nothing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ “Yahweh says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ This 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ For 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.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
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?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ Then 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ I 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.”’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ Give 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ But 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ The 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ What 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?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² If 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ “Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
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 will it yet be?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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