Jeremiah 13:9

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ Thus Yahweh said to me: "Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not place it in water." ² So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put it on my loins. ³ Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, ⁴ "Take the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock." ⁵ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me. ⁶ And then, after a long time, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go to the Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there." ⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything. ⁸ And then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ⁹ "Thus says Yahweh: ‘So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.

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After: Jeremiah 18:4-6, Lamentations 5:5-8

the pride: Jeremiah 13:15-17, Leviticus 26:19, Job 40:10-12, Proverbs 16:18, Isaiah 2:10-17, Isaiah 23:9, Ezekiel 16:50, Ezekiel 16:56, Nahum 2:2, *marg. Zephaniah 3:11, Luke 18:14, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5

the great: Jeremiah 48:29, Isaiah 16:6

Reciprocal: Zechariah 1:4 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men are brothers.

Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram pitched his tent, and he came and settled at the oaks of Mamre, which were at Hebron. And there he built an altar to Yahweh.

Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, "Here is my land before you; settle where it pleases you."

Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire property in it."

Psalms 120:7
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

Romans 12:18
If it is possible on your part, be at peace with all people.

1 Corinthians 6:7
Therefore it is already completely a loss for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, after this manner,.... As this girdle has been hid in Euphrates, and has been marred and rendered useless; so in like manner, and by such like means,

will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem; or their glory, or excellency t; that which they gloried in, and were proud of; their city which was burnt, and their temple which was destroyed by the Chaldeans; their king, princes, and nobles, who were carried captive into Babylon, by the river Euphrates, and stripped of all their grandeur, honour, and glory; and so the Targum,

"so will I corrupt the strength of the men of Judah, and the strength of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, which is much;''

and to which agrees the Syriac version, which renders it,

"the proud or haughty men of Judah, and the many haughty men of Jerusalem.''

t גאון "excellentiam", Calvin, Piscator.