Jeremiah 13:1-10, Jeremiah 25:12-38, Hosea 1:2-11 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Jeremiah 13:1-10

The Ruined Belt

Thus Yahweh said to me, “Go and ^abuy yourself a linen belt and put it around your loins, but do not put it in water.” 2 So I bought the belt in accordance with the ^aword of Yahweh and put it around my loins. 3 Then the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, 4 “Take the belt that you have bought, which is around your loins, and arise, go to ¹the ^aEuphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.” 5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, ^aas Yahweh had commanded me. 6 Now it happened that after many days Yahweh said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the belt which I commanded you to hide there.” 7 Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined; it was totally worthless.
8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 9 “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Just so will I ruin the ^apride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10 This evil people, who ^arefuse to listen to My words, who ^bwalk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have walked after other gods to serve them and to worship them, let them be just like this belt which is totally worthless.

Jeremiah 25:12-38

Punishment Against Babylon

12 ‘Then it will be ^awhen seventy years are fulfilled, that I will ^bpunish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, even the land of the Chaldeans; and ^cI will make it an everlasting desolation. 13 I will bring upon that land all My words which I have spoken against it, all that is written in ^athis book which Jeremiah has prophesied against ^ball the nations. 14 —¹For ^amany nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will ^brepay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands—’”
15 For thus Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this ^acup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. 16 They will ^adrink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”
17 Then I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and ^amade all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me drink it: 18 ^aJerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a waste place, an object of horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 19 ^aPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people, 20 and all the ¹^aforeign people, all the kings of the ^bland of Uz, all the kings of the land of the ^cPhilistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^dAshdod), 21 ^aEdom, ^bMoab, and the sons of ^cAmmon, 22 and all the kings of ^aTyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of ^bthe coastlands which are beyond the sea, 23 and ^aDedan, Tema, ^bBuz, and all who ^ccut ¹the corners of their hair, 24 and all the kings of ^aArabia and all the kings of the ¹^bforeign people who dwell in the desert, 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^aElam, and all the kings of ^bMedia, 26 and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and ^aall the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of ¹^bSheshach shall drink after them.
27 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “^aDrink, be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more because of the ^bsword which I will send among you.”’ 28 And it will be, if they ^arefuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: “^bYou shall surely drink! 29 For behold, I am ^abeginning to bring evil against this city which is ^bcalled by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for ^cI am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts.’
30 “Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them,

‘^aYahweh will ^broar from on high

And give forth His voice from His holy habitation;

He will roar mightily against His ¹pasture.

He will bellow a shout like those who tread the grapes,

Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

A rumbling has come to the end of the earth

Because Yahweh has ^aa contention against the nations.

He is entering into ^bjudgment with all flesh;

As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,’ declares Yahweh.”

32 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“Behold, evil is going forth

From ^anation to nation,

And a great ^bstorm is being stirred up

From the remotest parts of the earth.

33 “Those ^aslain by Yahweh on that day will be from one end of the earth to the ¹other. They will ^bnot be lamented, gathered, or buried; they will be like ^cdung on the face of the ground.
34

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

And ^aroll yourselves in ashes, you masters of the flock;

For the days of your ^bslaughter and your scatterings are being fulfilled,

And you will fall like a desirable vessel.

^aRefuge will perish from the shepherds

And escape from the mighty ones of the flock.

Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,

And the wailing of the mighty ones of the flock!

For Yahweh is destroying their pasture,

And the peaceful ^apastures are made silent

Because of the ^bburning anger of Yahweh.

He has forsaken His hiding place ^alike the lion;

For their land has become an object of horror

Because of the burning desire of ¹the oppressor

And because of His burning anger.”

Hosea 1:2-11

2 When Yahweh first spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “^aGo, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for ^bthe land commits flagrant harlotry, ¹forsaking Yahweh.” 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^agave birth to a son for him. 4 And Yahweh said to him, “Name him ^aJezreel; for yet a little while, and ^bI will visit the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and ^cI will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. 5 And it will be in that day, that I will ^abreak the bow of Israel in the ^bvalley of Jezreel.”
6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And ¹Yahweh said to him, “Name her ²Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer ^ahave compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. 7 But I will have ^acompassion on the house of Judah and ^bsave them by Yahweh their God, and I will not save them by ^cbow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
8 Then she weaned Lo-ruhamah. And she conceived and gave birth to a son. 9 And ¹Yahweh said, “Name him ²Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not ³your God.”
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¹Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the ^asand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And it will be that ^bin the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are ^cnot My people,”

It will be said to them,

“You are the ^dsons of the living God.”

And the ^asons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be ^bgathered together,

And they will set for themselves ^cone head,

And they will go up from the land,

For great will be the day of Jezreel.