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1Thus Yahweh said to me: “Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not place it in water.”[#Literally “bring”]
2So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put it on my loins.[#Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation]
3Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying,[#Literally “to say”]
4“Take the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”
5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me.
6And then, after a long time, then Yahweh said to me, “Stand up, go to the Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”[#Literally “And it happened”; #Literally “from the end of many days”]
7Then I went to the Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything.
8And then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “And it happened”; #Literally “to say”]
9“Thus says Yahweh: ‘So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.[#Or “walk”; #Hebrew “heart”]
11For as the loincloth clings to the loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.’[#Literally “a declaration of”]
12“Therefore, you shall say to them this word, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: “Every jar must be filled with wine.” ’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every jar should be filled with wine?’
13Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh: “Look, I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness.
14And I will smash them, each one against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together,” declares Yahweh. “I will not have compassion, and I will not take pity, and I will not show compassion from destroying them.” ’ ”[#Literally “a declaration of”]
15Listen, and pay attention,
16Give glory to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness,[#Literally “at not yet”]
And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom,
17But if you will not listen to it,
And my eyes will weep bitterly,
18“Say to the king and to the queen mother, ‘Take a lower seat,[#Literally “Bring low sit”]
19The towns of the Negev are shut up,
All of Judah is deported;
20Lift up your eyes
Where is the flock that was given to you,
21What will you say when he sets over you—
Will not labor pains take hold of you,
22And if you say in your heart,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered;
23Can a Cushite change his skin,
Then you also will be able to do good,
24And I will scatter them
25This is your lot,
“because you have forgotten me,
26So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face,
27Your adulteries, and your neighings,
on the hills in the countryside,
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!