“Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath[a](A) and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:4 Or possibly to the Euphrates; similarly in verses 5-7

Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

Read full chapter

10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(B) you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

Read full chapter

10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Read full chapter

63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.(A) 64 Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more(B) because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people(C) will fall.’”(D)

The words of Jeremiah end(E) here.

Read full chapter

63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Read full chapter

Psalm 137

By the rivers of Babylon(A) we sat and wept(B)
    when we remembered Zion.(C)

Read full chapter

137 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Read full chapter