Through My Bible Yr 2 – March 20
Bible reading based on Jeremiah 13 (NIV84) 1 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.” 2So I bought a belt, as the LORD directed, and put it around my waist. 3 Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time: 4 “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath [a] and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” 5So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me. 6 Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.” 7So 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. 8 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 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 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! 11For as a belt is bound around a man’s waist, so I bound the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to me,’ declares the LORD, ‘to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.’
12 “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?’ 13 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. 14I will smash them one against the other, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’ ” 15 Hear and pay attention, 16 Give glory to the LORD your God 17 But if you do not listen, 18 Say to the king and to the queen mother,
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up, 20 Lift up your eyes and see 21 What will you say when the LORD sets over you 22 And if you ask yourself, 23 Can the Ethiopian [b] change his skin 24 “I will scatter you like chaff 25 This is your lot, 26 I will pull up your skirts over your face 27 your adulteries and lustful neighings, Through My Bible – March 20
See series: Through My BibleJeremiah 13
A Linen Belt
Wineskins
Threat of Captivity
do not be arrogant,
for the LORD has spoken.
before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
but he will turn it to thick darkness
and change it to deep gloom.
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.
“Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns
will fall from your heads.”
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
those who are coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
those you cultivated as your special allies?
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?
“Why has this happened to me?”—
it is because of your many sins
that your skirts have been torn off
and your body mistreated.
or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
who are accustomed to doing evil.
driven by the desert wind.
the portion I have decreed for you,”
declares the LORD,
“because you have forgotten me
and trusted in false gods.
that your shame may be seen-
your shameless prostitution!
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?”
Footnotes:
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
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