Jeremiah 13

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1 So the Lord said to me: Go and buy a linen belt and put it on your loins, but do not put water in it.
2 And I bought a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
3 And the word of the LORD unto me the second time, saying:
4 Take the girdle that you bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
5 I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
6 After many days the Lord said to me: Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
7 And I went to Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
8 And it was to me the word of the Lord:
9 Thus saith the Lord: so will I break the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart on, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, will be like this girdle, which is good for nothing.
eleven For as the girdle clings to the loins of man, so I brought the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD, that they are my people, and my reputation, praise and decoration; but they did not listen.

12 Therefore say to them this word: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine. They will say to you, `Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? '
13 And you shall say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit on David's throne, and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD; I will not turn and have pity and will not spare to slay them.
15 Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord says.
16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 If you do not hear it, my soul in secret places for your pride will mourn, will cry bitterly, and my eyes will pour out in tears; because the Lord's flock will be taken prisoner.
18 Say to the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for your head down the crown of your glory.
19 South of the city locked, and no one to open them; Judah is taken into exile, taken into exile completely full.
20 Lift up your eyes and look at come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What do you say, [the daughter of Zion] when he visited you? Thou hast taught them as chief over thee; Do not pangs seize you like a woman in travail?

22 And if thou say in thine heart, for it is come upon me '? --Za Set of iniquity are thy skirts discovered thee thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard - spots? and you can do good who are accustomed to do evil?
24 Therefore will I scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore I will skirts upon thy face, that thy nakedness opened.
27 I have seen your adulteries and neighings, thy lewdness and thine abominations on the hills in the field. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem! and after these things you have not cleared. How long is it?

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