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          DASV: Jeremiah 13    

1 This is what the LORD said to me, "Go and buy linen shorts,
and put them on your waist, but do not put them in water."
2 So I bought shorts according to the word of the LORD,
and put them on my waist.
3 The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,
4 "Take the shorts that you have bought, that are on your waist,
and get up and go to the Euphrates River, and hide them there
in a crevice of the rock."
5 So I went and hid them by the Euphrates, as the LORD
told me to.
6 After many days, the LORD said to me, "Get up, go to the
Euphrates, and retrieve the shorts that I told you to hide
there."
7 So I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and retrieved the shorts
from the place where I had hid them. The shorts were ruined,
they were good for nothing.
8 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
9 "This is what the LORD says,
      'In this same way I will ruin the pride of Judah,
           and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words,
      that follow the stubbornness of their own heart,
           and pursued other gods to serve and worship them,
      they will be just like these shorts,
           which are good for nothing.
11 For as the shorts cling to the waist of a person,
      so I have caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel
           and the whole house of Judah,'"
                says the LORD.
      "so that they would have been a special people to me,
           for my fame, honor, and glory.
      But they would not listen."

12 "Therefore you tell them this word: 'This is what the LORD,
the God of Israel, says, May every jar be filled with wine.'
And they will reply, 'Obviously, do you think we don't
know that every jar should be filled with wine?'
13 Then tell them, 'This is what the LORD says, Look, I will
fill all the inhabitants of this land with drunkenness--the
kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
14 I will slam them against each other, both the parents and
the children,'" says the LORD. "I will not let pity, mercy,
or compassion deter me from destroying them."

15 Listen and pay attention.
     Do not be arrogant,
           for the LORD has spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God,
      before he causes it to become dark,
           and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains.
      While you look for light,
           he will turn it into deep darkness and gloom.
17 But if you refuse to hear it,
     my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
      my eyes will weep bitterly with tears streaming,
           because the LORD's flock will be taken into exile.
18 Tell the king and the queen-mother,
     "Humble yourselves, take a lowly seat,
      for your beautiful crowns will fall
           from your heads."
19 The towns of the Negev will be locked down,
          and no one will be able to open them.
      All Judah will be carried away into exile,
          it will be totally carried off into exile.
20 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north.
     Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
21 What will you say, when the LORD sets as head over you
          those whom you have enlisted to be your allies?
      Will not sorrows take hold of you,
          like those of a woman in labor?
22 Perhaps you will ask yourself,
          'Why have these things happened to me?'
      It is because of the greatness of your sin
          that your skirts will be stripped off,
           and your genitals violated.
23 Can an Ethiopian change his skin,
          or the leopard its spots?
     How then can you do good,
          who are so accustomed to doing evil?

24 "I will scatter them,
     like stubble that is blown away
           by the desert wind.
25 This is your lot,
     the portion measured to you from me,"
                says the LORD;
      "because you have forgotten me,
          and trusted in false idols.
26 Therefore I will also pull your skirts up over your face,
     and your shame will be exposed.
27 I have seen your abominations,
      your adulteries and your lustful pursuits,
           your shameless prostitution on the hills of the fields.
      Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
      How long before you are made clean?"

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