Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, which refuse to listen to My words, which walk in the sherirut (stubbornness) of their lev, and walk after elohim acharim, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this ezor, which is good for nothing.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

In Context

9Thus saith Hashem, After this manner will I mar the ga'on Yehudah (pride of Judah), and the great ga'on of Yerushalayim.

11For as the ezor has deveykus with the waist of an ish, so have I caused to have deveykus unto Me kol Bais Yisroel and kol Bais Yehudah, saith Hashem; that they might be unto Me for a People, and for Shem, and for Tehillah, and for Teferet: but they would not hear.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:11And Hashem said unto Moshe, How long will this people treat Me with contempt? And how long will it be until they believe in Me, for all the otot which I have performed among them?

Psalms 78:8And might not be as their Avot, 1 a dor sorer u'moreh (stubborn and rebellious generation); 1 a generation that set not its lev aright, 1 and whose ruach was not faithful to G-d. 1

Isaiah 3:24And it shall come to pass, 1 that instead of fragrance there shall be stench; 1 and instead of a sash, a rope; 1 and instead of well-set hair, baldness; 1 and instead of a rich cloak, a wrapping of sak (sackcloth); 1 and branding instead of yofi (beauty). 1

Jeremiah 5:23But HaAm Hazeh hath 1 a lev sorer (stubborn heart) and moreh (rebellious); 1 they have revolted and departed. 1

Jeremiah 7:24But they paid heed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the inclinations of the stubbornness of their lev harah (evil heart), and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 9:13But have walked after the sherirut (stubbornness) of their own lev, and after Ba'alim, which their avot taught them;

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:2-12

The Marred Girdle. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord , and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. 6 And it came to pass after… Read the whole commentary →

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