The Linen Loincloth
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” Heb 1:1Jer 13:11Ezk 4:1-5Jer 19:1Jer 27:2
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist. Ezk 2:8Isa 20:2Jhn 15:14Pro 3:5Hos 1:2-3Jhn 13:6-7
Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time: Jer 13:8 “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath 1and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.” Jer 51:63-64Mic 4:10Psa 137:1
So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me. Exo 40:16Exo 39:42-432Ti 2:3Act 26:19-20Heb 11:17-19Heb 11:8Jhn 2:5-8Mat 22:2-6
Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all. Isa 64:6Rom 3:12Ezk 15:3-5Jer 13:10Jer 24:1-8Luk 14:34-35Phm 1:11Zec 3:3-4
Then the word of the LORD came to me: “This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. Lev 26:19Isa 2:10-17Isa 23:9Jer 13:15-17Pro 16:18Zep 3:111Pe 5:5Ezk 16:50 These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all. Jer 16:12Jer 9:142Ch 36:15-16Num 14:11Act 7:51Eph 4:17-19Jer 11:7-8Jer 13:7
For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen. Exo 19:5-6Isa 43:21Jer 33:9Psa 81:111Pe 2:9Deu 26:18Deu 32:10-15Deu 4:7
The Wineskins
Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ Ezk 24:19
And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’ then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem. Isa 51:17Isa 63:6Psa 60:3Psa 75:8Hab 2:16Isa 49:26Jer 25:27Jer 51:7 I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’” Deu 29:20Psa 2:9Isa 27:11Isa 9:20-21Jer 19:9-11Jer 21:7Jer 6:211Sa 14:16
Captivity Threatened
Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, Isa 28:14-22Rev 2:29Act 4:19-20Amo 7:15Isa 42:23Jas 4:10Jer 26:15Jol 1:2
for the LORD has spoken.
Give glory to the LORD your God Isa 59:9Isa 8:22Isa 60:2Pro 4:19Isa 5:30Jos 7:19Amo 8:9-101Sa 6:5
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the dusky mountains.
You wait for light,
but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
But if you do not listen, Mal 2:2Jer 14:17Jer 9:1Luk 19:41-42Psa 80:1Rom 9:2-41Sa 15:35Ezk 34:31
I will weep in secret because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
Say to the king Jer 22:262Ki 24:122Ki 24:152Ch 33:122Ch 33:19Isa 47:11Pe 5:62Ch 33:23
and to the queen mother:
“Take a lowly seat,
for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, Jer 52:272Ki 25:21Deu 28:52Jer 39:9Jer 52:30Deu 28:15Deu 28:64-68Ezk 20:46-47
and no one can open them.
All Judah has been carried into exile,
wholly taken captive.
Lift up your eyes and see Jer 6:22Hab 1:6Jer 1:14Jer 23:2Act 20:26-29Jer 10:22Jer 13:17Isa 56:9-12
those coming from the north.
Where is the flock entrusted to you,
the sheep that were your pride?
What will you say when He sets over you Isa 13:8Jer 4:31Isa 10:3Isa 39:2-4Jer 38:22Jer 5:311Th 5:32Ki 16:7
close allies whom you yourself trained?
Will not pangs of anguish grip you,
as they do a woman in labor?
And if you ask yourself, Nam 3:5Jer 16:10-11Jer 5:19Deu 7:17Hos 2:10Jer 13:26Jer 9:2-9Lam 1:8
“Why has this happened to me?”
It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity
that your skirts have been stripped off
and your body has been exposed. 2
Can the Ethiopian 3change his skin, Jer 2:22Jer 9:5Mat 19:24-28Jer 17:9Jer 2:30Jer 5:3Isa 1:5Jer 6:29-30
or the leopard his spots?
Neither are you able to do good—
you who are accustomed to doing evil.
“I will scatter you like chaff Psa 1:4Lev 26:33Ezk 5:12Ezk 5:2Hos 13:3Deu 28:64Deu 32:26Deu 4:27
driven by the desert wind.
This is your lot, Job 20:29Psa 9:17Jer 2:32Mat 24:51Psa 11:6Isa 28:15Jer 2:13Jer 7:4-8
the portion I have measured to you,”
declares the LORD,
“because you have forgotten Me
and trusted in falsehood.
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, Hos 2:10Lam 1:8Ezk 16:37Ezk 23:29Jer 13:22
that your shame may be seen.
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, Ezk 24:13Ezk 6:13Hos 8:5Isa 65:72Co 12:212Co 7:1Ezk 36:37Hos 4:2
your shameless prostitution
on the hills and in the fields—
I have seen your detestable acts.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will you remain unclean?”