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Jeremiah 13:18

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The Lord said to me, “Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads.

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and King Jehoiachin, along with his mother, his sons, his officers, and the palace officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign he took Jehoiachin prisoner

Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylon as a prisoner, together with Jehoiachin's mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of Judah.

In his suffering he became humble, turned to the Lord his God, and begged him for help.

The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented—the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped—are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.

But unlike his father, he did not become humble and turn to the Lord; he was even more sinful than his father had been.

So Moses and Aaron went to the king and said to him, “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says, ‘How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

and the turban, the caps, the linen shorts,

because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last forever.

and their hats; the magic charms they wear on their arms and at their waists;

The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.

The Lord says, “Babylon, come down from your throne, and sit in the dust on the ground. You were once like a virgin, a city unconquered, but you are soft and delicate no longer! You are now a slave!

The Lord said to King Jehoiachin, son of King Jehoiakim of Judah, “As surely as I am the living God, even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off

I am going to force you and your mother into exile. You will go to a country where neither of you was born, and both of you will die there.

I wrote it after King Jehoiachin, his mother, the palace officials, the leaders of Judah and of Jerusalem, the engravers, and the skilled workers had been taken into exile.

After he had read it, they turned to one another in alarm and said to Baruch, “We must report this to the king.”

The splendor of Jerusalem is a thing of the past. Her leaders are like deer that are weak from hunger, Whose strength is almost gone as they flee from the hunters.

Her uncleanness was easily seen, but she showed no concern for her fate. Her downfall was terrible; no one can comfort her. Her enemies have won, and she cries to the Lord for mercy.

Jerusalem's old men sit on the ground in silence, With dust on their heads and sackcloth on their bodies. Young women bow their heads to the ground.

Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

I gave you a nose ring and earrings and a beautiful crown to wear.

I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. Take off your crown and your turban. Nothing will be the same again. Raise the poor to power! Bring down those who are ruling!

Don't let your sobbing be heard. Do not go bareheaded or barefoot as a sign of mourning. Don't cover your face or eat the food that mourners eat.”

You will not go bareheaded or barefoot or mourn or cry. You will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan to one another.

So that they won't perspire, they are to wear linen turbans and linen trousers, but no belt.

But because he became proud, stubborn, and cruel, he was removed from his royal throne and lost his place of honor.

When the king of Nineveh heard about it, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.

The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Humble yourselves, then, under God's mighty hand, so that he will lift you up in his own good time.




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