Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
This
is
what
the
LORD
said to
me :
“
Go and buy
yourself
a linen loincloth
and put
it around
your
waist
, but
do
not let
it touch
water.”
Thus
said Jehovah
unto
me ,
`
Go ,
and thou
hast
got
for
thee
a girdle
of
linen ,
and hast
placed
it on
thy
loins
, and
into
water
thou
dost
not cause
it to
enter:'
So
I bought
a
loincloth
as
the LORD
had
instructed
me
, and I put
it around
my waist
.
and
I get
the girdle
, according
to
the
word
of
Jehovah,
and I place
`
it '
on
my loins
.
Then
the
word of the
LORD
came
to
me a second time :
And
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
unto
me a second time ,
saying,
“
Take the loincloth
that you
bought
and
are
wearing
, and go at
once
to Perath
and hide it there in a crevice
of the rocks.”
`
Take the girdle
that thou
hast
got
, that
`is'
on
thy
loins,
and rise,
go to Phrat,
and hide it there in a hole
of the rock;
So
I went
and hid
it at
Perath
, as the
LORD
had
commanded me.
and
I go
and hide
it by
Phrat
, as Jehovah
commanded me.
Many days later
the
LORD
said
to
me, “Arise
, go to Perath
, and get
the loincloth
that I commanded you
to hide there .”
And
it
cometh
to
pass,
at
the
end
of
many days ,
that
Jehovah
saith
unto
me, `Rise
, go to Phrat
, and take
thence
the girdle,
that I commanded thee
to hide there ;'
So
I went
to Perath
and dug
up
the
loincloth
, and I
took
it
from the place where I had hidden
it .
But
now
it was
ruined—of
no
use
at
all
.
and
I go
to Phrat,
and dig
, and take
the
girdle
from the place where I had hid
it ;
and
lo,
the
girdle
hath
been
marred,
it is
not
profitable
for
anything
.
Then
the
word of the
LORD
came
to
me:
And
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
unto
me ,
saying,
`Thus
said
Jehovah
:
“This
is
what
the
LORD
says:
In
the
same
way
I will
ruin
the pride
of Judah and the great pride
of Jerusalem.
Thus
do
I mar
the excellency
of Judah ,
And the great excellency
of Jerusalem.
These
evil people, who refuse to listen
to
My words, who follow
the stubbornness of their own
hearts
, and who
go after other gods to serve and worship
them, they
will
be
like
this loincloth—of
no
use
at
all
.
This
evil people, who refuse to hear
My words, Who walk
in
the stubbornness of their heart
, And go after other gods to serve them,
And to
bow
themselves
to
them, Yea
it
is
--
as
this girdle,
that
is
not
profitable
for
anything
.
For just
as a
loincloth
clings
to
a man’s
waist
, so I have
made
the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling
to
Me
, declares
the
LORD
, so
that
they
might
be My
people for My
renown
and praise and glory.
But
they did
not listen
.
For ,
as the
girdle
cleaveth
unto
the
loins
of
a man
, So I caused
to
cleave
unto
Me
The whole house of Israel ,
And the whole house of Judah, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, To
be to
Me
for
a
people ,
and
for a
name,
And for
praise ,
and for
beauty,
And
they have
not hearkened
.
Therefore
you
are
to
tell
them that
this is
what
the
LORD
, the
God of Israel, says:
‘
Every wineskin
shall
be
filled
with
wine .’
And when
they reply,
‘Don’t
we surely
know that every wineskin
should
be
filled
with
wine? ’
And
thou
hast
said
unto
them this word
, Thus
said
Jehovah,
God of Israel, `
Every bottle
is
full
of
wine ,'
And they have
said
unto
thee:
`Do
we not
certainly
know that every bottle
is
full
of
wine? '
then
you
are
to
tell
them that
this
is
what
the
LORD
says
: ‘
I am going
to
fill
with
drunkenness
all who
live
in
this land —
the kings who sit on David’s
throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people
of Jerusalem .
And
thou
hast
said
unto
them ,
`Thus
said
Jehovah
: Lo,
I am filling
all the
inhabitants
of
this land ,
And
the kings who sit for
David
on his
throne, And
the priests, and
the prophets, And all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem ,
`With'
drunkenness,
I
will
smash
them against
one another, fathers and sons alike
, declares
the
LORD.
I will
allow
no
mercy
or
pity or
compassion
to keep
Me
from
destroying
them. ’”
And
have
dashed
them one against
another, And
the
fathers and the
sons together
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
I do
not
pity ,
nor
spare,
nor
have
I
mercy,
So
as
not
to destroy
them.
Listen
and give heed.
Do
not
be arrogant
, for the
LORD
has
spoken.
Hear,
and give ear
--
be not
haughty
, For Jehovah
hath
spoken.
Give glory
to the
LORD
your God before He brings
darkness, before your feet stumble on the
dusky
mountains .
You
wait
for light, but
He turns
it into
deep
gloom
and thick darkness.
Give ye
to Jehovah
your God honour,
Before He doth
cause
darkness, And
before your feet stumble on dark
mountains ,
And
ye
have
waited
for light, And
He hath
made
it for
death-shade,
And hath
appointed
`it'
for
thick darkness.
But
if you
do not listen
, I
will
weep
in secret because of your
pride .
My
eyes will
overflow
with
tears
, because
the LORD’s
flock has
been taken captive.
And
if ye
do not hear
it
, In secret places
doth
my
soul
weep,
because of pride ,
Yea,
it
weepeth
sore,
And
the
tear
cometh
down
mine
eyes, For
the flock of
Jehovah
hath
been taken captive.
Say to the king and to the queen
mother
: “Take
a
lowly
seat
, for your
glorious
crowns
have fallen
from
your heads
. ”
Say to the king and to the mistress
: Make
yourselves
low
--
sit
still
, For come
down
have your principalities,
The
crown
of
your
beauty
.
The cities of the Negev
have been shut tight
, and no
one
can
open
them.
All
Judah has
been carried
into
exile
, wholly
taken
captive.
The cities of the south
have been shut up
, And there
is
none
opening,
Judah hath
been removed
--
all
of
her
, She
hath
been
removed
completely
--
Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north .
Where is the flock
entrusted
to you
, the
sheep
that
were
your
pride
?
Lift up your eyes ,
and see those coming in
from the north ,
Where `
is '
the drove
given
to thee
, thy
beautiful
flock
?
What will
you
say when He sets
over you
close
allies
whom
you
yourself
trained
? Will
not pangs of
anguish
grip
you,
as they
do
a woman in
labor
?
What dost
thou
say ,
when He looketh
after
thee?
And
thou
--
thou
hast
taught
them
`to
be'
over thee
--
leaders
for
head
? Do
not pangs seize
thee
as a travailing
woman?
And if
you
ask
yourself
, “Why
has
this
happened
to
me? ”
It
is
because
of
the magnitude
of your
iniquity that
your
skirts
have been
stripped
off
and
your
body
has
been exposed
.
And when
thou
dost
say
in
thy
heart
, `Wherefore
have
these
met
me? '
For
the abundance
of thine
iniquity Have thy
skirts
been uncovered,
Have
thy
heels
suffered
violence
.
Can
the
Ethiopian
change his skin ,
or
the
leopard his spots? Neither
are you
able to do good —
you
who are accustomed to doing
evil.
Doth
a
Cushite
change his skin ?
and
a
leopard his spots? Ye
also
are able to do good ,
who are accustomed to do
evil.
“
I will
scatter you
like
chaff
driven
by the
desert
wind.
And
I scatter them
as
stubble,
Passing
away,
by a
wind of
the
wilderness
.
This is your
lot, the portion I
have
measured
to
you,”
declares
the
LORD
, “
because you
have
forgotten Me and trusted
in falsehood.
This `
is '
thy
lot, the portion of
thy
measures
from
Me
--
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, Because thou
hast
forgotten me ,
And dost
trust
in falsehood.
So
I will
pull
your
skirts up
over
your
face, that
your
shame may
be
seen.
I also
have
made
bare
thy
skirts before
thy
face, And
thy
shame hath
been
seen.
Your
adulteries and lustful
neighings, your
shameless
prostitution
on
the hills
and
in the
fields—
I have seen your
detestable
acts
. Woe
to you
, O Jerusalem !
How
long
will
you
remain
unclean
? ”
Thine
adulteries ,
and thy
neighings, The wickedness
of
thy
whoredom,
on
heights
in a
field,
I have seen thine
abominations
. Wo
to thee
, O Jerusalem ,
Thou
art
not
cleansed,
after
when
`is
it'
again
?
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