Jeremiah 13:7

Jeremiah 13:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
• New International Version (NIV)So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the sash from the place where I had hidden it; and there was the sash, ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

Context of Jeremiah 13:7

5So I went and buried it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had told me. 6After many days the Lord said to me, “Go to the Euphrates, and get the belt from where I told you to bury it.” So I went back to the Euphrates and dug it up. I got the belt from where I had buried it. Now the belt was ruined. It was good for nothing. 8Then the Lord spoke his word to me. He said, 9“This is what the Lord says: This is how I will destroy Judah’s arrogance and Jerusalem’s extreme arrogance.

Jeremiah 13:7 word by word

וָאֵלֵ֣ךְ פְּרָ֔תָה וָאֶחְפֹּ֗ר וָֽאֶקַּח֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֵז֔וֹר מִן־הַמָּק֖וֹם אֲשֶׁר־טְמַנְתִּ֣יו שָׁ֑מָּה וְהִנֵּה֙ נִשְׁחַ֣ת הָאֵז֔וֹר לֹ֥א יִצְלַ֖ח לַכֹּֽל׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Then I wentיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• to Euphratesפְּרָתperâth · EuphratesH6578
• and diggedחָפַרchâphar · to searchH2658
• and tookלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• the girdleאֵזוֹר'êzôr · girdleH232
• from the placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• where I had hidטָמַןţâman · to hideH2934
• was marredשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• it was profitableצָלֵחַtsâlach tsâlêach · to prosperH6743

Cross-references for Jeremiah 13:7

• Jeremiah 13:10These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They go their own stubborn ways and follow other gods in order to serve them and worship them. They are like this good-for-nothing belt.
• Jeremiah 24:1King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took Jehoiakin (son of King Jehoiakim of Judah), the princes of Judah, the skilled workers, and the builders from Jerusalem into captivity and brought them to Babylon. After this, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs set in front of the Lord’s temple.
• Isaiah 64:6We’ve all become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us shrivel like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
• Ezekiel 15:3Do people use it to make something? Do they make a peg from it to hang things on?
• Zechariah 3:3Joshua was wearing filthy clothes and was standing in front of the Messenger.
• Luke 14:34“Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how will you restore its flavor?
• Romans 3:12Everyone has turned away. Together they have become rotten to the core. No one does anything good, not even one person.
• Philemon 1:11Once he was useless to you, but now he is very useful to both of us.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 13:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7And behold, the girdle was marred; it was profitable for nothing - This symbolically represented the state of the Jews: they were corrupt and abominable; and God, by sending them into captivity, "marred the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem," Jeremiah 13:9.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7The safest time to travel was during the dry season, from June to September. Cloth was most likely to rot during the wet season, from October to May. Many days later was likely between six and ten months.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-27Many of these figurative acts being either not possible, or not probable, or decorous, seem to have existed only in the mind of the prophet as part of his inward vision. [So Calvin]. The world he moved in was not the sensible, but the spiritual, world. Inward acts were, however, when it was possible and proper, materialized by outward performance, but not always, and necessarily so. The internal act made a naked statement more impressive and presented the…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 13:7

• Euphrates
• Girdle
• Instruction
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

• Appear
• Pity
• Principality
• Hosea
• Euphrates

Commentaries on Jeremiah 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings