Thematic Bible




Jeremiah 13:1 (show verse)

This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment and put it on, but do not put it in water.”

Jeremiah 13:2 (show verse)

So I bought underwear as the Lord instructed me and put it on.

Jeremiah 13:3 (show verse)

Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:

Jeremiah 13:4 (show verse)

“Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Euphrates and hide it in a rocky crevice.”

Jeremiah 13:5 (show verse)

So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.

Jeremiah 13:6 (show verse)

A long time later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to the Euphrates and get the underwear that I commanded you to hide there.”

Jeremiah 13:7 (show verse)

So I went to the Euphrates and dug up the underwear and got it from the place where I had hidden it, but it was ruined—of no use at all.

Jeremiah 13:8 (show verse)

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 13:9 (show verse)

“This is what the Lord says: Just like this I will ruin the great pride of both Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 13:10 (show verse)

These evil people, who refuse to listen to Me, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who have followed other gods to serve and worship—they will be like this underwear, of no use at all.

Jeremiah 13:11 (show verse)

Just as underwear clings to one’s waist, so I fastened the whole house of Israel and of Judah to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“so that they might be My people for My fame, praise, and glory, but they would not obey.

Jeremiah 13:12 (show verse)

“Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you, ‘Don’t we know that every jar should be filled with wine?’

Jeremiah 13:13 (show verse)

And you will say to them: This is what the Lord says: I am about to fill all who live in this land—the kings who reign for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the residents of Jerusalem—with drunkenness.

Jeremiah 13:14 (show verse)

I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.”

Jeremiah 13:15 (show verse)

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,
for the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 13:16 (show verse)

Give glory to the Lord your God
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom
and makes thick darkness.

Jeremiah 13:17 (show verse)

But if you will not listen,
my innermost being will weep in secret
because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 13:18 (show verse)

Say to the king and the queen mother:
Take a humble seat,
for your glorious crowns
have fallen from your heads.
No Themes for this verse.

Jeremiah 13:19 (show verse)

The cities of the Negev are under siege;
no one can help them.
All of Judah has been taken into exile,
taken completely into exile.

Jeremiah 13:20 (show verse)

Look up and see
those coming from the north.
Where is the flock entrusted to you,
the sheep that were your pride?

Jeremiah 13:21 (show verse)

What will you say when He appoints
close friends as leaders over you,
ones you yourself trained?
Won’t labor pains seize you,
as they do a woman in labor?
No Themes for this verse.

Jeremiah 13:22 (show verse)

And when you ask yourself,
“Why have these things happened to me?”
It is because of your great guilt
that your skirts have been stripped off,
your body exposed.
No Themes for this verse.

Jeremiah 13:23 (show verse)

Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.

Jeremiah 13:24 (show verse)

I will scatter you like drifting chaff
before the desert wind.

Jeremiah 13:25 (show verse)

This is your lot,
what I have decreed for you—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
because you have forgotten Me
and trusted in Falsehood.

Jeremiah 13:26 (show verse)

I will pull your skirts up over your face
so that your shame might be seen.
No Themes for this verse.

Jeremiah 13:27 (show verse)

Your adulteries and your lustful neighing,
your heinous prostitution
on the hills, in the fields—
I have seen your detestable acts.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
You are unclean—
for how long yet?
No Themes for this verse.