Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
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:'
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.”
and
I get
the
girdle,
according
to
the word
of
Jehovah
, and I place
`
it '
on
my loins
.
So
I bought
a
loincloth
as
the LORD
had
instructed
me
, and I put
it around
my waist
.
And
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
unto
me a second time ,
saying,
Then
the
word of the
LORD
came
to
me a second time :
`
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;
“
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.”
and
I go
and hide
it by
Phrat
, as Jehovah
commanded me.
So
I went
and hid
it at
Perath
, as the
LORD
had
commanded me.
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 ;'
Many days later
the
LORD
said
to
me, “Arise
, go to Perath
, and get
the loincloth
that I commanded you
to hide there .”
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
.
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
there
is
a
word of Jehovah
unto
me ,
saying,
`Thus
said
Jehovah
:
Then
the
word of the
LORD
came
to
me:
Thus
do
I mar
the excellency
of Judah ,
And the great excellency
of Jerusalem.
“This
is
what
the
LORD
says:
In
the
same
way
I will
ruin
the pride
of Judah and the great pride
of Jerusalem.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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? '
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 ,
`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,
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
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.
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. ’”
Hear,
and give ear
--
be
not haughty
, For Jehovah
hath
spoken.
Listen
and give heed.
Do
not be
arrogant
, for the
LORD
has
spoken.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Say to the king and to the mistress
: Make
yourselves
low
--
sit
still
, For come
down
have
your principalities,
The
crown
of
your beauty
.
Say to the king and to the queen
mother
: “Take
a
lowly
seat
, for your glorious
crowns
have
fallen
from
your heads
. ”
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
--
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.
Lift up your eyes ,
and see those coming in
from the north ,
Where `
is '
the drove
given
to thee
, thy
beautiful
flock
?
Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north .
Where is the flock
entrusted
to you
, the
sheep
that
were
your
pride
?
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?
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
?
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
.
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
.
Doth
a
Cushite
change his skin ?
and
a
leopard his spots? Ye
also
are able to do good ,
who are accustomed to do
evil.
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.
And
I scatter them
as
stubble,
Passing
away,
by a
wind
of
the wilderness
.
“
I will
scatter you
like
chaff
driven
by the desert
wind
.
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.
This is your
lot, the portion I
have
measured
to
you
, ”
declares
the
LORD,
“
because you
have
forgotten Me and trusted
in falsehood.
I also
have
made
bare
thy
skirts before
thy
face, And
thy
shame hath
been
seen.
So
I will
pull
your
skirts up
over
your
face, that
your
shame may
be
seen.
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
?
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
? ”
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