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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 13 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Jeremiah 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/12.htm" title="Jeremiah 12">◄</a> Jeremiah 13 <a href="../jeremiah/14.htm" title="Jeremiah 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/13-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Linen Loincloth<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, Go and procure for thyself a linen girdle, and put it about thy loins, and let it not be put in water. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I <i>had</i> buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thus will I mar the pride of Juda, and the pride of Jerusalem; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><i>even</i> this great pride <i>of the men</i> that will not hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house of Juda; that they might be to me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory: but they did not hearken to me.<p> <A name="13"></a><p class="hdg">The Wineskins<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And thou shalt say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? that thou shalt say to them, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Juda and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity <i>to save them</i> from destruction.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Captivity Threatened<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hear ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open <i>them</i>: Juda is removed <i>into captivity,</i> they have suffered a complete removal.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be exposed.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thus is thy lot, and the reward of your disobedience to me, saith the Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I also will expose thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet <i>shall it be</i>?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>