1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Jeremiah 13:1 | Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt not put it into water. | Girdle, usually worn by women. (St. Jerome) (Exodus 28:42.) --- It denoted the Jews, who became more corrupt during the captivity; (ver. 7, 11.) so that God delivered them out of his pure mercy. Thus He explains this prophetical action. (Calmet) --- Loins. God cherished his people. (Menochius) --- Water. He made choice of them when they were rough and deformed. (St. Jerome) --- Their sins cause their ruin. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 13:2 | And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins. | |
| Jeremiah 13:3 | And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying: | |
| Jeremiah 13:4 | Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. | Euphrates, above 150 leagues distant. Some think this was only to be done in spirit: but it is generally supposed that the prophet made this long journey twice. Bochart suggests that Euphrates (Hebrew Peratha) may be put for Ephrata, or Bethlehem, as the first syllable is often cut off. (Calmet) --- Yet a journey to the Euphrates would represent more strikingly the destination of the people; and it would not be difficult for God to convey Jeremias thither in a short time, if requisite, as he sent Habacuc through the air to carry a dinner to Daniel; (xiv. 32.) though this supposition is not here necessary, as the labour to which Jeremias was repeatedly exposed, might shew the people their manifold transgressions and captivities. (Haydock) --- Such prophetic actions make a deeper impression than words, Hebrews 1:The ingratitude of the people is here described, to Jeremias 21. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 13:5 | And I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me. | |
| Jeremiah 13:6 | And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. | |
| Jeremiah 13:7 | And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it: and behold, the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use. | |
| Jeremiah 13:8 | And the word of the Lord came to me saying: | |
| Jeremiah 13:9 | Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot. | Rot. I will bring them low. (Menochius) --- They shall see that all their dependance must be on the divine mercy. |
| Jeremiah 13:10 | 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. | |
| Jeremiah 13:11 | 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. | Glory; that they might serve me for the edification of the world. |
| Jeremiah 13:12 | 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? | Bottle, of earthen ware, Jeremias 25:27. (Calmet) --- Every man shall suffer, ver. 13. (Haydock) --- This is another prophetical similitude denoting extreme perplexity. (Worthington) --- Do. They deride the prophet, as if he said nothing worthy of notice. (Menochius) |
| Jeremiah 13:13 | 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. | |
| Jeremiah 13:14 | 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 destroy them. | |
| Jeremiah 13:15 | Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken. | |
| Jeremiah 13:16 | 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. | Dark. John 12:35. --- Mountains, beyond the Euphrates, resembling clouds. |
| Jeremiah 13:17 | 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. Lamentations 1:2. | My soul. Jeremias can do no more. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "your soul,...your eyes," etc. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 13:18 | Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. | Queen; Nohesta, mother of Joachim, or to the consort of Sedecias. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "to the princes." (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 13:19 | 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. | South, belonging to Juda; (Calmet) or Egypt will afford no protection. (Tournemine) (Chap. 37:3, 10.) |
| Jeremiah 13:20 | Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come from the north: where is the flock that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle? | North: ye Chaldeans. (Haydock) --- Hebrew and Septuagint, "see those who come." --- Cattle. O king, what account wilt thou give of the people to the Almighty? (Calmet) |
| Jeremiah 13:21 | 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? | Head. Achaz called the Assyrians into the country, and Ezechias had shewn his treasures to the Babylonians. Other kings excited God's indignation. |
| Jeremiah 13:22 | 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. Jeremias 30:14. | Defiled. Thou art exposed to the brutality of the soldiers. |
| Jeremiah 13:23 | If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil. | Evil. Bad habits are a sort of second nature. I speak in vain. (Calmet) --- Yet God sometimes converts inveterate sinners, who cannot rise of themselves. (Worthington) |
| Jeremiah 13:24 | And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. | |
| Jeremiah 13:25 | 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. | |
| Jeremiah 13:26 | Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared. | Appeared. Thou art treated as a wretched and vile captive. (Haydock) |
| Jeremiah 13:27 | 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? | Me; to serve me. (Menochius) |