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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Ruined Loincloth</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and put it around my waist. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me a second time, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” <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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And after many days the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.</p> <p class="heading">The Jars Filled with Wine</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”</p> <p class="heading">Exile Threatened</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear and give ear; be not proud,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Give glory to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God</span><br /><span class="indent">before he brings darkness,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">before your feet stumble</span><br /><span class="indent">on the twilight mountains,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and while you look for light</span><br /><span class="indent">he turns it into gloom</span><br /><span class="indent">and makes it deep darkness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But if you will not listen,</span><br /><span class="indent">my soul will weep in secret for your pride;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,</span><br /><span class="indent">because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s flock has been taken captive.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Say to the king and the queen mother:</span><br /><span class="indent">“Take a lowly seat,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for your beautiful crown</span><br /><span class="indent">has come down from your head.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The cities of the Negeb are shut up,</span><br /><span class="indent">with none to open them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">all Judah is taken into exile,</span><br /><span class="indent">wholly taken into exile.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Lift up your eyes and see</span><br /><span class="indent">those who come from the north.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Where is the flock that was given you,</span><br /><span class="indent">your beautiful flock?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What will you say when they set as head over you</span><br /><span class="indent">those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Will not pangs take hold of you</span><br /><span class="indent">like those of a woman in labor?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And if you say in your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">‘Why have these things come upon me?’</span><br /><span class="ln-group">it is for the greatness of your iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent">that your skirts are lifted up</span><br /><span class="indent">and you suffer violence.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can the Ethiopian change his skin</span><br /><span class="indent">or the leopard his spots?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Then also you can do good</span><br /><span class="indent">who are accustomed to do evil.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will scatter you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew them">a</a></sup></span> like chaff</span><br /><span class="indent">driven by the wind from the desert.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">This is your lot,</span><br /><span class="indent">the portion I have measured out to you, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because you have forgotten me</span><br /><span class="indent">and trusted in lies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I myself will lift up your skirts over your face,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your shame will be seen.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/13-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have seen your abominations,</span><br /><span class="indent">your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings,</span><br /><span class="indent">on the hills in the field.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Woe to you, O Jerusalem!</span><br /><span class="indent">How long will it be before you are made clean?”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> Hebrew <i>them</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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