“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 13:9 (BSB)
Context Reading
7So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined — of no use at all. 8Then the word of the LORD came to me: 9“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth — of no use at all. 11For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.