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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the word of the LORD came to me: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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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