Jeremiah 13:8

8 {And then} the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},

Jeremiah 13:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:8

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying.
] Or the word of prophecy from before the Lord, as the Targum; and now follows the application of this sign to the thing signified, and the whole intention of it is opened.

Jeremiah 13:8 In-Context

6 {And then}, {after a long time}, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go [to the] Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."

7 Then I went [to the] Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything.

8 {And then} the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},

9 "Thus says Yahweh: 'So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

10 This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "And it happened"
• [b]. Literally "to say"