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    Jeremiah · 27 verses

    Jeremiah 13

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    A linen loincloth is bought, worn, hidden in a rock crevice, dug up ruined—and then wineskins enter the conversation, carrying a perfectly obvious answer into a very un-obvious prophecy.

    The ruined linenvv. 1–11

    The LORD gives the speaker an errand of extraordinary domestic precision: buy linen, keep it dry, wear it, hide it at Perath, and later recover it. The garment comes back “of no use at all,” which is a rather severe fate for a piece of clothing, and becomes the likeness of Judah’s pride and of a people who will not listen. The loincloth clung to a waist; Israel and Judah were meant to cling to the LORD. They did not.

    Wineskins and darknessvv. 12–17

    The next sign begins with the sort of statement nobody could possibly dispute: every wineskin shall be filled with wine. The reply is equally obvious, and the LORD promptly turns the little exchange into a declaration that drunkenness will fill the land, from kings and priests to prophets and the people of Jerusalem. Then comes the command to listen, followed by darkness, stumbling, and the speaker’s secret weeping when the LORD’s flock is taken captive.

    Crowns, captivity, and neighingsvv. 18–27

    The king and queen mother are told to take lowly seats, because their crowns have fallen. The cities of the Negev are shut, Judah is carried into exile, and those coming from the north bring a question about the flock once entrusted to Jerusalem. The chapter then asks why this has happened, answers with iniquity, and scatters the people like chaff. Its final accusation is remarkably zoological: adultery is joined to “lustful neighings,” before the last question asks how long Jerusalem will remain unclean.

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    1. Jer 13:1This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

    2. Jer 13:2So I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.

    3. Jer 13:3Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:

    4. Jer 13:4“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

    5. Jer 13:5So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.

    6. Jer 13:6Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

    7. Jer 13:7So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

    8. Jer 13:8Then the word of the LORD came to me:

    9. Jer 13:9“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

    10. Jer 13:10These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

    11. Jer 13:11For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

    12. Jer 13:12Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’

    13. Jer 13:13then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.

    14. Jer 13:14I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”

    15. Jer 13:15Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.

    16. Jer 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

    17. Jer 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

    18. Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

    19. Jer 13:19The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

    20. Jer 13:20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?

    21. Jer 13:21What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

    22. Jer 13:22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

    23. Jer 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.

    24. Jer 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

    25. Jer 13:25This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

    26. Jer 13:26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

    27. Jer 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 317 passages were voted onto 25 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 23Jeremiah 2:22Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
    • 23Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
    • 23Matthew 19:24–28Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
    • 18Jeremiah 22:26I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
    • 16Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
    • 182 Kings 24:12Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
    • 16Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
    • 16Isaiah 60:2For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.
    • 17Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
    • 182 Kings 24:15Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
    • 22Nahum 3:5“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
    • 23Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
    • 11Exodus 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
    • 13Isaiah 63:6I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
    • 13Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
    • 15Isaiah 28:14–22Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

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