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chapter 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.
2 And I got a girdle accoding to the word of the Lord,
and put it about my loins.
3 And the word of the Lord came to me the second time,
saying:
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.
5 And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord
had commanded me.
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.
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.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
9 Thus saith the Lord: after this manner will I make
the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
15 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord
hath spoken.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the
north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?
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?
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.
23 If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard
his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.
24 And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried
away by the wind in the desert.
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.
26 Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy
face, and thy shame hath appeared.
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?
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