Yaram'Yahu (Jeremiah) — 13

Yaramyahu’s Linen Loincloth

1 This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.” 

2 So I bought the loincloth as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH directed me, and I put it on.

3 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave me another message: 

4 “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.” 

5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH had instructed me.

6 A long time afterward  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.” 

7 So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.

8 Then I received this message from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH: 

9 “This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Yahudah and Yahushalam. 

10 These wicked people refuse to listen to me, They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other nations idols, therefore, they will become like this loincloth, good for nothing! 

11 As a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I created Yahudah and Yashar'AL to cling to me, says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, They were to be my people, my pride, my Kabad, an honor to my Name, But they would not listen to me.

12 “So tell them, ‘This is what  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Yashar'AL Dabar: May all your jars be filled with wine.’ And they will reply, ‘Of course! Jars are made to be filled with wine!’

13 “Then tell them, ‘No, this is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH means: I will fill everyone in this land with drunkenness, from the king sitting on Daud’s throne to the Kuhanym and the Nabyms, right down to the common people of Yahushalam. 

14 I will smash them against each other, even parents against children, says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH I will not let my pity or mercy or compassion keep me from destroying them.’”

A Warning against Pride

15 Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH has spoken.

16 Give Kabad to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH before it is too late, Acknowledge 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH before He brings darkness upon you, causing you to stumble and fall on the darkening mountains, For then when you look for light, you will find only terrible darkness and gloom.

17 And if you still refuse to listen, I will weep alone because of your pride, My eyes will overflow with tears, because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s flock will be led away into exile.

18 Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your royal crowns will soon be snatched from your heads.”

19 The towns of the Nagab will close their gates, and no one will be able to open them, the people of Yahudah will be taken away as captives, all will be carried into exile.

20 Open up your eyes and see the armies marching down from the north! Where is your flock, your beautiful flock, that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH gave you to care for?

21 What will you say when  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH takes the allies you have cultivated and appoints them as your rulers? Pangs of anguish will grip you, like those of a woman in labor!

22 You may ask yourself, “Why is all this happening to me?” It is because of your many sins! That is why you have been stripped and raped by invading armies.

23 Can an Athiupian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots Neither can you start doing good, for you have always done evil.

24 “I will scatter you like chaff that is blown away by the desert winds.

25 This is your allotment, the portion I have assigned to you,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, “for you have forgotten me, putting your trust in false idol deities.

26 I myself will strip you and expose you to shame.

27 I have seen your adultery and lust, and your disgusting idol worship out in the fields and on the hills, What sorrow awaits you, Yahushalam, How long before you are pure?”