New Living Translation (NLT)
Jeremiah 12
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:
9 “This is what the LORD says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.
10 These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!
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