Jeremiah 13:1
The LORD said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
World English Bible
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In Context
2So I bought a belt according to the LORD’s word, and put it on my waist.
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:11For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says the LORD; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’
Jeremiah 19:1Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
Jeremiah 43:9“Take great stones in your hand and hide them in mortar in the brick work which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
Hebrews 1:1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:1
Still the prophet is attempting to awaken this secure and stubborn people to repentance, by the consideration of the judgments of God that were coming upon them. He is to tell them, I. By the sign of a girdle spoiled that their pride should be stained, ver. 1-11 . II. By the sign of bottles filled with wine that their counsels should be blasted, ver. 12-14 . III. In consideration hereof he is to call them to repent and humble themselves, ver. 15-21 . IV. He is to convince them that it is for their obstinacy and… Read the whole commentary →