Jeremiah Chapter 13

• Jeremiah 13:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 13:2
  The LORD said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
• Jeremiah 13:3
  So I bought a belt according to the LORD’s word, and put it on my waist.
• Jeremiah 13:4
  The LORD’s word came to me the second time, saying,
• Jeremiah 13:5
  “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.”
• Jeremiah 13:6
  So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
• Jeremiah 13:7
  After many days, the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”
• Jeremiah 13:8
  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 ...
• Jeremiah 13:9
  Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Jeremiah 13:10
  “The LORD says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 13:11
  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 worshi...
• Jeremiah 13:12
  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 the LORD; ...
• Jeremiah 13:13
  “Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘D...
• Jeremiah 13:14
  Then tell them, ‘The LORD says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prop...
• Jeremiah 13:15
  I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says the LORD: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I shou...
• Jeremiah 13:16
  Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for the LORD has spoken.
• Jeremiah 13:17
  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...
• Jeremiah 13:18
  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 the LORD’s flock ...
• Jeremiah 13:19
  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.
• Jeremiah 13:20
  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 captiv...
• Jeremiah 13:21
  Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
• Jeremiah 13:22
  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 woma...
• Jeremiah 13:23
  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 suff...
• Jeremiah 13:24
  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
• Jeremiah 13:25
  “Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
• Jeremiah 13:26
  This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says the LORD, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
• Jeremiah 13:27
  Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.
• Jeremiah 13:28
  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, Jerus...