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A Linen Belt
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
The Ruined Waistband
Thus the LORD said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”
Thus the LORD said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.”
So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist.
So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the LORD and put it around my waist.
Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,
“Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”
So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.
So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD had commanded me.
Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
After many days the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”
So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.
Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.
“This is what the Lord says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
“Thus says the LORD, ‘Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt — completely useless!
‘This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.
For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,’ declares the Lord, ‘to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.’
‘For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.’
Wineskins
“Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
“Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
Captivity Threatened
“Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’
then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem.
then say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land — the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem — with drunkenness!
I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’ ”
“I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares the LORD. “I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.”’”
Threat of Captivity
Hear and pay attention,
do not be arrogant,
for the Lord has spoken.
Hear and pay attention,
do not be arrogant,
for the Lord has spoken.
Listen and give heed, do not be haughty,
For the LORD has spoken.
For the LORD has spoken.
Give glory to the Lord your God
before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
but he will turn it to utter darkness
and change it to deep gloom.
before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
but he will turn it to utter darkness
and change it to deep gloom.
Give glory to the LORD your God,
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.
If you do not listen,
I will weep in secret
because of your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly,
overflowing with tears,
because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.
I will weep in secret
because of your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly,
overflowing with tears,
because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.
But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive.
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive.
Say to the king and to the queen mother,
“Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns
will fall from your heads.”
“Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns
will fall from your heads.”
Say to the king and the queen mother,
“Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”
“Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”
The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
The cities of the Negev have been locked up,
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Wholly carried into exile.
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Wholly carried into exile.
Look up and see
those who are coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
those who are coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
“Lift up your eyes and see
Those coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
Your beautiful sheep?
Those coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
Your beautiful sheep?
What will you say when the Lord sets over you
those you cultivated as your special allies?
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?
those you cultivated as your special allies?
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?
“What will you say when He appoints over you —
And you yourself had taught them —
Former companions to be head over you?
Will not pangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?
And you yourself had taught them —
Former companions to be head over you?
Will not pangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?
And if you ask yourself,
“Why has this happened to me?” —
it is because of your many sins
that your skirts have been torn off
and your body mistreated.
“Why has this happened to me?” —
it is because of your many sins
that your skirts have been torn off
and your body mistreated.
“If you say in your heart,
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity
Your skirts have been removed
And your heels have been exposed.
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity
Your skirts have been removed
And your heels have been exposed.
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.
“I will scatter you like chaff
driven by the desert wind.
driven by the desert wind.
“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert wind.
To the desert wind.
This is your lot,
the portion I have decreed for you,”declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten me
and trusted in false gods.
the portion I have decreed for you,”declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten me
and trusted in false gods.
“This is your lot, the portion measured to you
From Me,” declares the LORD,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in falsehood.
From Me,” declares the LORD,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in falsehood.
I will pull up your skirts over your face
that your shame may be seen —
that your shame may be seen —
“So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face,
That your shame may be seen.
That your shame may be seen.
your adulteries and lustful neighings,
your shameless prostitution!
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?”
your shameless prostitution!
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?”
“As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your prostitution
On the hills in the field,
I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean?”
The lewdness of your prostitution
On the hills in the field,
I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean?”