Jeremiah 13 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Thus saith the Lord: after this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.

² 0 This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which is fit for no use.

³ 1 For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins of a man, so have I brought close to me all of the house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they might be my people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

⁴ 2 Thou shalt speak therefore to them this word: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine, and they shall say to thee: Do we not know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

⁵ 3 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings of the race of David that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. with drunkenness.

⁶ 4 And I will scatter them every man from his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner, saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy them.

⁷ 5 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.

⁸ 6 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

⁹ 7 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down the tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

¹⁰ 8 Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

¹¹ 9 The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.

¹² 0 Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle?

¹³ 1 What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour?

¹⁴ 2 And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.

¹⁵ 3 If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.

¹⁶ 4 And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert.

¹⁷ 5 This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.

¹⁸ 6 Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.

¹⁹ 7 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

²⁰ The Word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of the drought.

²¹ Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

²² The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.

²³ For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they covered their heads.

²⁴ Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.

²⁵ And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

²⁶ If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

²⁷ O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: why wilt thou be a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?