Jeremiah 13:15

THE MESSAGE

Then I said, Listen. Listen carefully: Don't stay stuck in your ways! It's God 's Message we're dealing with here. Let your lives glow bright before God before he turns out the lights, Before you trip and fall on the dark mountain paths. The light you always took for granted will go out and the world will turn black. If you people won't listen, I'll go off by myself and weep over you, Weep because of your stubborn arrogance, bitter, bitter tears, Rivers of tears from my eyes, because God 's sheep will end up in exile.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,for the Lord has spoken.

Hebrew Names Version
Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for the LORD has spoken.

King James Version
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken.

English Standard Version
Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord has spoken.

New American Standard Bible
Listen and pay attention, do not be haughty; For the LORD has spoken.

New Century Version
Listen and pay attention. Don't be too proud, because the Lord has spoken to you.

Amplified Bible
Listen and pay close attention, do not be haughty and overconfident, For the LORD has spoken [says Jeremiah].

World English Bible
Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare and giue eare, be not proude: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Legacy Standard Bible
Listen and give ear, do not be haughty,For Yahweh has spoken.

Berean Standard Bible
Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.

Contemporary English Version
People of Judah, don't be too proud to listen to what the Lord has said.

Complete Jewish Bible
Listen and pay attention; don't be proud! For Adonai has spoken.

Darby Translation
Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath spoken.

Easy-to-Read Version
Listen and pay attention. The Lord has spoken to you. Do not be proud.

George Lamsa Translation
Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken.

Good News Translation
People of Israel, the Lord has spoken! Be humble and listen to him.

Lexham English Bible
Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken.

Literal Translation
Hear and give ear; do not be proud, for Jehovah has spoken.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be obedient, geue eare, take no di?dayne at it, for it is the LORDE himself that speaketh.

American Standard Version
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Jehovah hath spoken.

Bible in Basic English
Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud; for the LORD hath spoken.

King James Version (1611)
Heare ye and giue eare, bee not proud: for the Lord hath spoken.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare, geue eare, take not disdayne at it: for it is the Lorde hym selfe that speaketh.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.

English Revised Version
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here ye, and perseyue with eeris; nyle ye be reisid, for the Lord spak.

Update Bible Version
Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

New English Translation
Then I said to the people of Judah, "Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

New King James Version
Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the LORD has spoken.

New Living Translation
Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.

New Life Bible
Listen and hear. Do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.

New Revised Standard
Hear and give ear; do not be haughty, for the Lord has spoken.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear ye and give ear, be not haughty, - For Yahweh, hath spoken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.

Revised Standard Version
Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken.

Young's Literal Translation
Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Listen and give heed, do not be haughty, For the LORD has spoken.

Contextual Overview

¹² "And then tell them this, ‘ God 's Message, personal from the God of Israel: Every wine jug should be full of wine.' "And they'll say, ‘Of course. We know that. Every wine jug should be full of wine!' ¹³"Then you'll say, ‘This is what God says: Watch closely. I'm going to fill every person who lives in this country—the kings who rule from David's throne, the priests, the prophets, the citizens of Jerusalem—with wine that will make them drunk. And then I'll smash them, smash the wine-filled jugs—old and young alike. Nothing will stop me. Not an ounce of pity or mercy or compassion will slow me down. Every last drunken jug of them will be smashed!'" ¹⁵Then I said, Listen. Listen carefully: Don't stay stuck in your ways! It's God 's Message we're dealing with here. Let your lives glow bright before God before he turns out the lights, Before you trip and fall on the dark mountain paths. The light you always took for granted will go out and the world will turn black. If you people won't listen, I'll go off by myself and weep over you, Weep because of your stubborn arrogance, bitter, bitter tears, Rivers of tears from my eyes, because God 's sheep will end up in exile. ¹⁸Tell the king and the queen-mother, "Come down off your high horses. Your dazzling crowns will tumble off your heads." The villages in the Negev will be surrounded, everyone trapped, And Judah dragged off to exile, the whole country dragged to oblivion. ²⁰Look, look, Jerusalem! Look at the enemies coming out of the north! What will become of your flocks of people, the beautiful flocks in your care? How are you going to feel when the people you've played up to, looked up to all these years Now look down on you? You didn't expect this? Surprise! The pain of a woman having a baby! Do I hear you saying, "What's going on here? Why me?" The answer's simple: You're guilty, hugely guilty. Your guilt has your life endangered, your guilt has you writhing in pain.

Bible Verse Review
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and: Isaiah 42:23, Joel 1:2, Revelation 2:29

be: Isaiah 28:14-22, James 4:10

for: Jeremiah 26:15, Amos 7:15, Acts 4:19, Acts 4:20

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 12:6 - humbled Nehemiah 9:29 - yet they Psalms 107:40 - causeth Proverbs 29:10 - but Isaiah 1:2 - for the Lord Isaiah 24:3 - the Lord Jeremiah 2:4 - Hear ye Jeremiah 10:1 - General Jeremiah 13:9 - the pride Jeremiah 13:17 - for Jeremiah 36:25 - made Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Micah 2:3 - go Micah 3:1 - Hear Micah 6:1 - ye Luke 8:8 - He that 2 Corinthians 2:4 - out 1 Thessalonians 2:8 - affectionately 2 Timothy 2:25 - instructing

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold.

Genesis 13:3
He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up his tent between Bethel and Ai and built his first altar. Abram prayed there to God .

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."

Genesis 13:12
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold. He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up his tent between Bethel and Ai and built his first altar. Abram prayed there to God . Lot, who was traveling with Abram, was also rich in sheep and cattle and tents. But the land couldn't support both of them; they had too many possessions. They couldn't both live there—quarrels broke out between Abram's shepherds and Lot's shepherds. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living on the land at the time. Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left." Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom.

Genesis 28:13
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."

Exodus 33:1
God said to Moses: "Now go. Get on your way from here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Head for the land which I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I will send an angel ahead of you and I'll drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. It's a land flowing with milk and honey. But I won't be with you in person—you're such a stubborn, hard-headed people!—lest I destroy you on the journey."

Deuteronomy 34:4
Then and there God said to him, "This is the land I promised to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the words ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I've let you see it with your own eyes. There it is. But you're not going to go in."

Psalms 37:29
class="psalm-title"> A David Psalm Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked. In no time they'll shrivel like grass clippings and wilt like cut flowers in the sun. Get insurance with God and do a good deed, settle down and stick to your last. Keep company with God , get in on the best. Open up before God , keep nothing back; he'll do whatever needs to be done: He'll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon. Quiet down before God , be prayerful before him. Don't bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow their way to the top. Bridle your anger, trash your wrath, cool your pipes—it only makes things worse. Before long the crooks will be bankrupt; God -investors will soon own the store. Before you know it, the wicked will have had it; you'll stare at his once famous place and—nothing! Down-to-earth people will move in and take over, relishing a huge bonanza. Bad guys have it in for the good guys, obsessed with doing them in. But God isn't losing any sleep; to him they're a joke with no punch line. Bullies brandish their swords, pull back on their bows with a flourish. They're out to beat up on the harmless, or mug that nice man out walking his dog. A banana peel lands them flat on their faces— slapstick figures in a moral circus. Less is more and more is less. One righteous will outclass fifty wicked, For the wicked are moral weaklings but the righteous are God -strong. God keeps track of the decent folk; what they do won't soon be forgotten. In hard times, they'll hold their heads high; when the shelves are bare, they'll be full. God-despisers have had it; God 's enemies are finished— Stripped bare like vineyards at harvest time, vanished like smoke in thin air. Wicked borrows and never returns; Righteous gives and gives. Generous gets it all in the end; Stingy is cut off at the pass. Stalwart walks in step with God ; his path blazed by God , he's happy. If he stumbles, he's not down for long; God has a grip on his hand. I once was young, now I'm a graybeard— not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. Every day he's out giving and lending, his children making him proud. Turn your back on evil, work for the good and don't quit. God loves this kind of thing, never turns away from his friends. Live this way and you've got it made, but bad eggs will be tossed out. The good get planted on good land and put down healthy roots.

Isaiah 63:18
Who Goes There? The watchmen call out, "Who goes there, marching out of Edom, out of Bozrah in clothes dyed red? Name yourself, so splendidly dressed, advancing, bristling with power!" "It is I: I speak what is right, I, mighty to save!" "And why are your robes so red, your clothes dyed red like those who tread grapes?" "I've been treading the winepress alone. No one was there to help me. Angrily, I stomped the grapes; raging, I trampled the people. Their blood spurted all over me— all my clothes were soaked with blood. I was set on vengeance. The time for redemption had arrived. I looked around for someone to help —no one. I couldn't believe it —not one volunteer. So I went ahead and did it myself, fed and fueled by my rage. I trampled the people in my anger, crushed them under foot in my wrath, soaked the earth with their lifeblood." I'll make a list of God 's gracious dealings, all the things God has done that need praising, All the generous bounties of God , his great goodness to the family of Israel— Compassion lavished, love extravagant. He said, "Without question these are my people, children who would never betray me." So he became their Savior. In all their troubles, he was troubled, too. He didn't send someone else to help them. He did it himself, in person. Out of his own love and pity he redeemed them. He rescued them and carried them along for a long, long time. But they turned on him; they grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned on them, became their enemy and fought them. Then they remembered the old days, the days of Moses, God's servant: "Where is he who brought the shepherds of his flock up and out of the sea? And what happened to the One who set his Holy Spirit within them? Who linked his arm with Moses' right arm, divided the waters before them, Making him famous ever after, and led them through the muddy abyss as surefooted as horses on hard, level ground? Like a herd of cattle led to pasture, the Spirit of God gave them rest." That's how you led your people! That's how you became so famous! Look down from heaven, look at us! Look out the window of your holy and magnificent house! Whatever happened to your passion, your famous mighty acts, Your heartfelt pity, your compassion? Why are you holding back? You are our Father. Abraham and Israel are long dead. They wouldn't know us from Adam. But you're our living Father, our Redeemer, famous from eternity! Why, God , did you make us wander from your ways? Why did you make us cold and stubborn so that we no longer worshiped you in awe? Turn back for the sake of your servants. You own us! We belong to you! For a while your holy people had it good, but now our enemies have wrecked your holy place. For a long time now, you've paid no attention to us. It's like you never knew us.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear ye, and give ear,.... Both to what goes before, and what follows after. The words doubled denote the closest and strictest attention:

be not proud; haughty, scornful, as above all instruction, and needing no advice and counsel, self-conceited, despising the word of God, and his messages by his prophets; or, "do not lift up yourselves" x; above others, and against God:

for the Lord hath spoken; it is not I, but the Lord; and what he has said shall certainly come to pass; so the Targum,

"for in the word of the Lord it is so decreed;''

it is in vain to oppose him; his counsel shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure; none ever hardened themselves against him, and prospered.

x אל תגבהו "ne elevetis vos", Montanus, Pagninus; "exaltetis", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be not proud - Both the symbols were of a nature very humiliating to the national self-respect.