King James VersionJeremiah13

Jeremiah

1 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen gir­dle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in wa­ter. 2 So I got a gir­dle ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the sec­ond time, say­ing, 4 Take the gir­dle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Eu­phrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. 5 So I went, and hid it by Eu­phrates, as the LORD com­mand­ed me. 6 And it came to pass af­ter many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Eu­phrates, and take the gir­dle from thence, which I com­mand­ed thee to hide there. 7 Then I went to Eu­phrates, and digged, and took the gir­dle from the place where I had hid it: and, be­hold, the gir­dle was marred, it was prof­itable for noth­ing. 8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 9 Thus saith the LORD, Af­ter this man­ner will I mar the pride of Ju­dah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10 This evil peo­ple, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imag­i­na­tion of their heart, and walk af­ter oth­er gods, to serve them, and to wor­ship them, shall even be as this gir­dle, which is good for noth­ing. 11 For as the gir­dle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Is­rael and the whole house of Ju­dah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a peo­ple, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glo­ry: but they would not hear. 12 There­fore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael, Ev­ery bot­tle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not cer­tain­ly know that ev­ery bot­tle shall be filled with wine? 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Be­hold, I will fill all the in­hab­i­tants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the in­hab­i­tants of Jerusalem, with drunk­en­ness. 14 And I will dash them one against an­oth­er, even the fa­thers and the sons to­geth­er, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mer­cy, but de­stroy them. 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spo­ken. 16 Give glo­ry to the LORD your God, be­fore he cause dark­ness, and be­fore your feet stum­ble upon the dark moun­tains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shad­ow of death, and make it gross dark­ness. 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in se­cret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, be­cause the LORD'S flock is car­ried away cap­tive. 18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Hum­ble your­selves, sit down: for your prin­ci­pal­i­ties shall come down, even the crown of your glo­ry. 19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Ju­dah shall be car­ried away cap­tive all of it, it shall be whol­ly car­ried away cap­tive. 20 Lift up your eyes, and be­hold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was giv­en thee, thy beau­ti­ful flock? 21 What wilt thou say when he shall pun­ish thee? for thou hast taught them ­to be cap­tains, and as chief over thee: shall not sor­rows take thee, as a wom­an in tra­vail? 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Where­fore come these things upon me? For the great­ness of thine in­iq­ui­ty are thy skirts dis­cov­ered, and thy heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopi­an change his skin, or the leop­ard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are ac­cus­tomed to do evil. 24 There­fore will I scat­ter them as the stub­ble that pas­seth away by the wind of the wilder­ness. 25 This is thy lot, the por­tion of thy mea­sures from me, saith the LORD; be­cause thou hast for­got­ten me, and trust­ed in false­hood. 26 There­fore will I dis­cov­er thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may ap­pear. 27 I have seen thine adul­ter­ies, and thy neigh­ings, the lewd­ness of thy whore­dom, and thine abom­i­na­tions on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?