English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 13, verse 20 in Lxxen Version

Jeremiah 13 : 1 (LXXEN)

Thus saith the Lord, Go and procure for thyself a linen girdle, and put it about thy loins, and let it not be put in water.

Jeremiah 13 : 2 (LXXEN)

So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.

Jeremiah 13 : 3 (LXXEN)

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 13 : 4 (LXXEN)

Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

Jeremiah 13 : 5 (LXXEN)

So I went, and hid it *Gr. in by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.

Jeremiah 13 : 6 (LXXEN)

And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

Jeremiah 13 : 7 (LXXEN)

So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.

Jeremiah 13 : 8 (LXXEN)

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,

Jeremiah 13 : 9 (LXXEN)

Thus will I mar the pride of Juda, and the pride of Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 13 : 10 (LXXEN)

even this great pride of the men that will not hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.

Jeremiah 13 : 11 (LXXEN)

For as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house of Juda; that they might be to me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory: but they did not hearken to me.

Jeremiah 13 : 12 (LXXEN)

And thou shalt say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? that thou shalt say to them,

Jeremiah 13 : 13 (LXXEN)

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Juda and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.

Jeremiah 13 : 14 (LXXEN)

And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity to save them from destruction.

Jeremiah 13 : 15 (LXXEN)

Hear ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 13 : 16 (LXXEN)

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

Jeremiah 13 : 17 (LXXEN)

But if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord’s flock is sorely bruised.

Jeremiah 13 : 18 (LXXEN)

Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.

Jeremiah 13 : 19 (LXXEN)

The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open them: Juda is removed into captivity, they have *Lit. finished, or, accomplished suffered a complete removal.

Jeremiah 13 : 20 (LXXEN)

Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?

Jeremiah 13 : 21 (LXXEN)

What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 13 : 22 (LXXEN)

And if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be exposed.

Jeremiah 13 : 23 (LXXEN)

If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.

Jeremiah 13 : 24 (LXXEN)

So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.

Jeremiah 13 : 25 (LXXEN)

Thus is thy lot, and the *Gr. portion reward of your disobedience to me, saith the Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,

Jeremiah 13 : 26 (LXXEN)

I also will expose thy *See verse 22 skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen;

Jeremiah 13 : 27 (LXXEN)

thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the *Gr. estrangement looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified Gr. after me so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?