JEREMIAH 13

GOD WILL RUIN THE PRIDE OF JUDAH 

God instructs Jeremiah to take the loincloth tied around his waist and hide it in the crevice of some rocks. Many days later, God tells Jeremiah to return to the loincloth, which was dirty and ruined. Comparing the people of Judah to the cloth, God tells of His plans to ruin their pride.

Instead of clinging to God’s truth in the way a cloth clings around the waist, the people of Judah clung to their own ways. Judah had the potential to be glorious and praiseworthy, but their potential was as wasted as the spoiled cloth.

Jeremiah continues warning the people of Judah that disaster is coming and will result in the entire kingdom’s exile.