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| Jeremiah 13:1 | Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water. | This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water. |
| Jeremiah 13:2 | And I got a girdle accoding to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins. | So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body. |
| Jeremiah 13:3 | And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying: | And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, |
| Jeremiah 13:4 | Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. | Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock. |
| Jeremiah 13:5 | And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me. | So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me. |
| Jeremiah 13:6 | And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. | Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there. |
| Jeremiah 13:7 | And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it: and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use. | So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything. |
| Jeremiah 13:8 | And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: | Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
| Jeremiah 13:9 | Thus saith the Lord: after this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot. | The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem. |
| Jeremiah 13:10 | This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which is fit for no use. | These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything. |
| Jeremiah 13:11 | For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I brought close to me all of the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. | For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear. |
| Jeremiah 13:12 | Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine, and they shall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? | So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine? |
| Jeremiah 13:13 | And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of David that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. with drunkenness. | Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink. |
| Jeremiah 13:14 | And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them. | I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction. |
| Jeremiah 13:15 | Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. | Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord. |
| Jeremiah 13:16 | Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness. | Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night. |
| Jeremiah 13:17 | But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down the tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. | But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners. |
| Jeremiah 13:18 | Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. | Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads. |
| Jeremiah 13:19 | The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity. | The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners. |
| Jeremiah 13:20 | Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle? | Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock? |
| Jeremiah 13:21 | What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? | What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth? |
| Jeremiah 13:22 | And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. | And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you. |
| Jeremiah 13:23 | If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil. | Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil. |
| Jeremiah 13:24 | And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. | So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land. |
| Jeremiah 13:25 | This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood. | This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false. |
| Jeremiah 13:26 | Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared. | So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen. |
| Jeremiah 13:27 | I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet? | I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me? |
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