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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Wycliffe Bible

Jeremiah 13:2

And Y took in possessioun a breigirdil, bi the word of the Lord; and Y puttide aboute my leendis.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Euphrates;   Girdle;   Instruction;   Prophets;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Scofield Reference Index - Parables;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Girdle;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Symbol;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Azari'ah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I bought underwear as the Lord instructed me and put it on.
Hebrew Names Version
So I bought a belt according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
King James Version
So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord , and put it on my loins.
English Standard Version
So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord , and put it around my waist.
New American Standard Bible
So I bought the undergarment in accordance with the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.
New Century Version
So I bought a linen belt, just as the Lord told me, and put it around my waist.
Amplified Bible
So I bought the waistband according to the word of the LORD and put it on my loins.
World English Bible
So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So I bought the girdle according to the commandement of the Lord, and put it vpon my loynes.
Legacy Standard Bible
So I bought the belt in accordance with the word of Yahweh and put it around my loins.
Berean Standard Bible
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
Contemporary English Version
So I bought a pair of shorts and put them on.
Complete Jewish Bible
So I bought a loincloth, as Adonai had said, and put it on.
Darby Translation
And I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I bought a linen loincloth, just as the Lord told me to do, and I put it around my waist.
George Lamsa Translation
So I bought a girdle according to the word of the LORD and put it on my loins.
Good News Translation
So I bought them and put them on.
Lexham English Bible
So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put it on my loins.
Literal Translation
So I bought a girdle according to the Word of Jehovah and put it on my loins.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then I got me a brech, acordinge to the commaundemet of the LORDE, and put it aboute my loynes.
American Standard Version
So I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.
Bible in Basic English
So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it upon my loins.
King James Version (1611)
So I got a girdle, according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loines.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then I got me a girdle accordyng to the commaundement of the Lorde, and put it about my loynes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.
English Revised Version
So I bought a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it upon my loins.
Update Bible Version
So I bought a girdle according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.
Webster's Bible Translation
So I procured a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins.
New English Translation
So I bought the shorts as the Lord had told me to do and put them on.
New King James Version
So I got a sash according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.
New Living Translation
So I bought the loincloth as the Lord directed me, and I put it on.
New Life Bible
So I bought the belt as the Lord had said and put it around me.
New Revised Standard
So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord , and put it on my loins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I bought a girdle according to the word of Yahweh, - and put upon my loins.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.
Revised Standard Version
So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Young's Literal Translation
and I get the girdle, according to the word of Jehovah, and I place [it] on my loins.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the LORD and put it around my waist.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord seith these thingis to me, Go, and take in possessioun to thee a lynnun breigirdil; and thou schalt putte it on thi leendis, and thou schalt not bere it in to watir. 2 And Y took in possessioun a breigirdil, bi the word of the Lord; and Y puttide aboute my leendis. 3 And the word of the Lord was maad to me in the secounde tyme, 4 and seide, Take the brigirdil, which thou haddist in possessioun, which is aboute thi leendis; and rise thou, and go to Eufrates, and hide thou it there, in the hoole of a stoon. 5 And Y yede, and hidde it in Eufrates, as the Lord comaundide to me. 6 And it was don aftir ful many daies, the Lord seide to me, Rise thou, and go to Eufrates, and take fro thennus the brigirdil, whiche Y comaundide to thee, that thou schuldist hide it there. 7 And Y yede to Eufrates, and diggide out, and Y took the breigirdil fro the place, where Y hadde hidde it; and lo! the breigirdil was rotun, so that it was not able to ony vss. 8 And the word of the Lord was maad to me, 9 and seide, The Lord seith these thingis, So Y schal make rotun the pride of Juda, and the myche pride of Jerusalem, 10 and this worste puple, that nylen here my wordis, and goen in the schrewidnesse of her herte; and thei yeden aftir alien goddis, to serue hem, and to worschipe hem; and thei schulen be as this breigirdil, which is not able to ony vss.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

according: Proverbs 3:5, Isaiah 20:2, Ezekiel 2:8, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 1:3, John 13:6, John 13:7, John 15:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:6 - Dan Jeremiah 13:6 - Arise

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
Therfore Abram stiede fro Egipt, he, and his wijf, and alle thingis that he hadde; and Loth stiede with hym, to the south coost.
Genesis 13:3
And he turnede ayen bi the weye in which he cam fro the south in to Bethel, `til to the place, in which bifore he hadde sett tabernacle, bitwixe Bethel and Hay,
Genesis 13:9
Lo! al the lond is bifore thee, Y biseche, departe thou fro me; if thou go to the left side, Y schal holde the riyt side; if thou chese the riyt side, Y schal go to the left side.
Genesis 13:10
And so Loth reiside hise iyen, and seiy aboute al the cuntrei of Jordan, which was al moistid, bifor that the Lord distriede Sodom and Gomorre, as paradis of the Lord, and as Egipt, as men comen in to Segor.
Genesis 13:12
Abram dwellide in the lond of Chanaan; sotheli Loth dwellide in townes aboute Jordan, and wonide in Sodom.
Genesis 13:13
Forsothe men of Sodom weren ful wickid, and synneris greetly bifore the Lord.
Genesis 24:35
and the Lord hath blessid my lord greetli, and he is maad greet; and God yaf to hym scheep, and oxun, siluer, and gold, seruauntis, and handmaides, camels, and assis.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But thenke thou on thi Lord God, that he yaf strengthis to thee, that he schulde fille his couenaunt, of whiche he swoor to thi fadris, as present dai schewith.
1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord makith pore, and makith riche; he makith low, and reisith.
Job 1:3
and his possessioun was seuene thousynde of scheep, and thre thousynde of camels, and fyue hundrid yockis of oxis, and fyue hundrid of femal assis, and ful myche meynee; and `thilke man was grete among alle men of the eest.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I got a girdle,.... Or, bought n a linen one, as directed:

according to the word of the Lord; his express order and command; the prophet was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:

and I put it on my loins; without washing it before or after, and wore it publicly for some time.

n ואקנה Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.


 
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