Jeremiah 13:4

World English Bible (2000)

Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 137:1 : 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
  • Jer 51:63-64 : 63 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates: 64 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
  • Mic 4:10 : 10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

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  • Jer 13:5-8
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    90%

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

    6 It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.

    7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

    8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Jer 13:1-3
    3 verses
    86%

    1 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water.

    2 So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my waist.

    3 The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,

  • 17 "You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

  • Ezek 12:4-8
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    4 You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.

    5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

    6 In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, so that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.

    7 I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

    8 In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,

  • Ezek 4:6-8
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    6 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

    7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

    8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

  • 63 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

  • 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;

  • Dan 10:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,

    5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz:

  • 22 The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.

  • 2 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;

  • Jer 19:1-2
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    1 Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

    2 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

  • 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I dressed you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.

  • 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

  • Jer 38:11-12
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    11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

    12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords. Jeremiah did so.

  • Jer 13:10-11
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    10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

    11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

  • 4 Now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.

  • 3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

  • 3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  • 3 "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

  • 4 He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

  • 1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

  • 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • 17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

  • 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

  • 11 Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

  • 12 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

  • 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

  • 14 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.

  • 11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

  • 22 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.

  • 19 Then the princes said to Baruch, Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.

  • 2 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

  • 17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread.

  • 16 She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."