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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/jeremiah/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jeremiah’s Linen Loincloth</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So I bought the loincloth as the LORD directed me, and I put it on.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the LORD gave me another message: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So I went and hid it by the Euphrates as the LORD had instructed me.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>A long time afterward the LORD said to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then I received this message from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I created Judah and Israel to cling to me, says the LORD. They were to be my people, my pride, my glory—an honor to my name. But they would not listen to me.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“So tell them, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: May all your jars be filled with wine.’ And they will reply, ‘Of course! Jars are made to be filled with wine!’</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Then tell them, ‘No, this is what the LORD means: I will fill everyone in this land with drunkenness—from the king sitting on David’s throne to the priests and the prophets, right down to the common people of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will smash them against each other, even parents against children, says the LORD. I will not let my pity or mercy or compassion keep me from destroying them.’”</p><p class="hdg">A Warning against Pride</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Listen and pay attention!</p><p class="line2">Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Give glory to the LORD your God</p><p class="line2">before it is too late.</p><p class="line1">Acknowledge him before he brings darkness upon you,</p><p class="line2">causing you to stumble and fall on the darkening mountains.</p><p class="line1">For then, when you look for light,</p><p class="line2">you will find only terrible darkness and gloom.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And if you still refuse to listen,</p><p class="line2">I will weep alone because of your pride.</p><p class="line1">My eyes will overflow with tears,</p><p class="line2">because the LORD’s flock will be led away into exile.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Say to the king and his mother,</p><p class="line1">“Come down from your thrones</p><p class="line2">and sit in the dust,</p><p class="line1">for your glorious crowns</p><p class="line2">will soon be snatched from your heads.”</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The towns of the Negev will close their gates,</p><p class="line2">and no one will be able to open them.</p><p class="line1">The people of Judah will be taken away as captives.</p><p class="line2">All will be carried into exile.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Open up your eyes and see</p><p class="line2">the armies marching down from the north!</p><p class="line1">Where is your flock—</p><p class="line2">your beautiful flock—</p><p class="line2">that he gave you to care for?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What will you say when the LORD takes the allies you have cultivated</p><p class="line2">and appoints them as your rulers?</p><p class="line1">Pangs of anguish will grip you,</p><p class="line2">like those of a woman in labor!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You may ask yourself,</p><p class="line1">“Why is all this happening to me?”</p><p class="line2">It is because of your many sins!</p><p class="line1">That is why you have been stripped</p><p class="line2">and raped by invading armies.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Can an Ethiopian<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> change the color of his skin?</p><p class="line2">Can a leopard take away its spots?</p><p class="line1">Neither can you start doing good,</p><p class="line2">for you have always done evil.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“I will scatter you like chaff</p><p class="line2">that is blown away by the desert winds.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>This is your allotment,</p><p class="line2">the portion I have assigned to you,”</p><p class="line2">says the LORD,</p><p class="line1">“for you have forgotten me,</p><p class="line2">putting your trust in false gods.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I myself will strip you</p><p class="line2">and expose you to shame.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I have seen your adultery and lust,</p><p class="line2">and your disgusting idol worship out in the fields and on the hills.</p><p class="line1">What sorrow awaits you, Jerusalem!</p><p class="line2">How long before you are pure?”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Perath;</span><span class="ft"> also in 13:5, 6, 7.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">a Cushite.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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