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Jeremiah 12
¹⁵ But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own possession.
¹⁶ And if these nations truly learn the ways of my people, and if they learn to swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’ (just as they taught my people to swear by the name of Baal), then they will be given a place among my people.
¹⁷ But any nation who refuses to obey me will be uprooted and destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Jeremiah 13
¹ This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.”
² So I bought the loincloth as the LORD directed me, and I put it on.
³ Then the LORD 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 the LORD had instructed me.
⁶ A long time afterward the LORD said 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 the LORD: