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Jeremiah 13:18

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Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.”

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King Jehoiakin of Judah, his mother, officials, generals, and eunuchs surrendered to the king of Babylon. In the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon captured Jehoiakin.

He took Jehoiakin to Babylon as a captive. He also took the king’s mother, wives, eunuchs, and the leading citizens of the land from Jerusalem as captives to Babylon.

When he experienced this distress, he begged the Lord his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.

His prayer and how God accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

He didn’t humble himself in front of the Lord as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself in my presence? Let my people go to worship me.

They also made the chief priest’s turban and the other beautiful turbans out of fine linen. They made the undergarments and belt out of fine linen yarn.

Wealth is not forever. Nor does a crown last from one generation to the next.

hats, ankle bracelets, blouses, perfume boxes, charms,

The gates of Zion will cry and grieve, and Zion will sit on the ground, exhausted.

Go, sit in the dirt, virgin princess of Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, princess of the Babylonians! You will no longer be called soft and delicate.

“As I live,” declares the Lord, “even though you, Jehoiakin, son of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, are the signet ring on my right hand, I will pull you off my hand.

I will throw you and your mother into another land. You weren’t born there, but you will die there.

(This was after King Jehoiakin  and his mother, the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and metal workers left Jerusalem.)

When they heard everything, they turned to each other in terror. They said to Baruch, “We must tell the king everything.”

All splendor has abandoned the people of Zion. Its influential people were like deer that couldn’t find any pasture. They ran without any strength ahead of the hunters.

Jerusalem’s own filth ⌞covers⌟ its clothes. It gave no thought to its future. Its downfall was shocking. No one offers it comfort. ‘O Lord, look at my suffering, because my enemies have triumphed.’

The respected leaders of Zion’s people sit silently on the ground. They throw dirt on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

The crown has fallen from our head. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.

I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

This is what the Almighty Lord says: Take off your turban, and get rid of your crown. Things are going to change. Those who are unimportant will become important, and those who are important will become unimportant.

Groan silently. Don’t grieve for the person who dies. Tie on your turban, and put on your sandals. Don’t cover your face or eat the food that mourners eat.”

Leave your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. Don’t grieve or cry! You will waste away because of your guilt and groan to one another.

They must wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments. They must not wear anything that makes them sweat.

But when he became so arrogant and conceited that he became overconfident, he was removed from the royal throne. His honor was taken away from him.

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Whoever becomes like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Humble yourselves in the Lord’s presence. Then he will give you a high position.

Be humbled by God’s power so that when the right time comes he will honor you.




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