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Jeremiah 13
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Thus saith the LORD
unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put
it not in water. |
(13:1-7)
God gives Jeremiah some divine instructions
about a girdle. He tells him not to wash it, but to hide it in a rock. Jeremiah
does as he's told. But, alas, when he goes to retrieve it, it was ruined. Darn!
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So I got a girdle
according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
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| 13:3
And the word of the
LORD came unto me the second time, saying, |
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Take the girdle that
thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide
it there in a hole of the rock. |
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So I went, and hid it
by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. |
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And it came to pass
after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and
take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. |
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Then I went to
Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid
it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. |
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Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and
the great pride of Jerusalem. |
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This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the
imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to
worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. |
Apparently, the point of the girdle story (13:1-7) was to say that
worshipping other gods "is good for nothing."
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For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to
cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith
the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a
praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. |
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Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto
thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? |
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Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of
this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the
priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness. |
(13:13-14)
God plans to make everyone in the kingdom
drunk and then " dash the fathers and the
sons together." The merciful God of Peace vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy,
but destroy them."
Is God merciful?
Some suggestions for the next Left Behind game
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And I will dash
them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the
LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
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Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. |
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Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your
feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn
it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. |
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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your
pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the
LORD's flock is carried away captive. |
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Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. |
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The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah
shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away
captive. |
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Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the
flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? |
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What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to
be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman
in travail? |
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And if thou say in
thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine
iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. |
God compares the destruction of Jerusalem to the rape of a
woman who deserves to be raped because she has sinned.
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye
also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. |
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Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind
of the wilderness. |
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This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD;
because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. |
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Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may
appear. |
(13:26-27)
God plans to expose Jerusalem's private parts to the world by
lifting her skirt over her head, so to speak. He's seen her commit whoredoms and abominations and
whatnot on the hills, and he's getting darned sick of it!
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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy
whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee,
O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
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