Jeremiah 13
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 13, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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.
Jeremiah 13:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put {it} on my loins.
Jeremiah 13:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
Jeremiah 13:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 13:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.
Jeremiah 13:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Jeremiah 13:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 13:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {imagination: or, stubbornness}
Jeremiah 13:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jeremiah 13:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
Jeremiah 13:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jeremiah 13:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. {one...: Heb. a man against his brother} {but...: Heb. from destroying them}
Jeremiah 13:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
Jeremiah 13:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, {and} make {it} gross darkness.
Jeremiah 13:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for {your} pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Jeremiah 13:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, {even} the crown of your glory. {principalities: or, head tires}
Jeremiah 13:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open {them}: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
Jeremiah 13:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where {is} the flock {that} was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Jeremiah 13:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them {to be} captains, {and} as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? {punish: Heb visit upon}
Jeremiah 13:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, {and} thy heels made bare. {made...: or, shall be violently taken away}
Jeremiah 13:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? {then} may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. {accustomed: Heb. taught}
Jeremiah 13:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 13:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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This {is} thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 13:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Jeremiah 13:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, {and} thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when {shall it} once {be}? {when...: Heb. after when yet?}
Jeremiah 13:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.