New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jeremiah 12
12 "On all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For a sword of the Lord is devouring From one end of the land even to the other; There is no peace for anyone.
13 "They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, They have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the Lord."
14 Thus says the Lord concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, "Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
15 And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.
16 Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ’As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.
17 But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it," declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 13
1 Thus the Lord said to me, "Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water."
2 So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the Lord and put it around my waist.
3 Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
4 "Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock."
5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.
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