JeremiYAH 13

Bad Religio-Politics Festers Like Leather-Rot1

😇, YHVH orders me, “Go buy yourself a linen belt, [Jeremiah]. Wrap it around your girth. Don't get it wet.”

So I obey the word of YHVH. I buy a belt. I [cinch] it around my waist.

Then the word of YHVH comes [alive in] me a second time:

[YAH] says, “Take that belt you bought that's [wrapped around] your middle. Get up. [Run] to [the] Euphrates [river]. Hide [the belt] there in a hole in the rocks.”

So I [hike ~750km northeast from Jerusalem to Iraq], 😇. I hide [the belt] by [the] Euphrates [river], as YHVH commanded me.

Many days pass, 😇. Then YHVH says to me, “Get up. [Hike back] to [the] Euphrates [river]. Fetch that belt I told you to hide there.”

So, 😇, I [run back] to [the] Euphrates [river area]. I dig up the belt from the hole where I'd buried it. And I see that [my lovely] belt is now a rotting, good-for-nothing rag!

Then, 😇, the word of YHVH comes [alive in] me.
AFTER you obey, YAH's word comes alive in your heart.

YHVH says, “I'm ruining the pride of Judea, [including] the great arrogance of Jerusalem, just like [I rotted your belt].

Jeremiah Warns His Arrogant Nation Of Demise10

This evil population refuses to hear my advice. They walk out the schemes of their [evil] heart[s]. They trail behind retard ‘gods.’ [They] serve [demons]. [They] bow down to [junk that's] as worthless as this [rotten] belt.
Belt is a metaphor for an accord, or agreement: the binding obligation of contract, such as a treaty, an insurance contract or a Driver's Licence Application, all executed under penalty of perjury.

—Just like a belt hugs a man's mid-section, I had the whole dynasties of [north] Israel and [southern] Judah clinging to me,” says YHVH. “They could have been my famous people, applauded, glorious. But they [constantly] choose to ignore [me].

So you, 😇 must speak to the [Judeo-Christians] this analogy: YHVH Elohim of Israel says, ‘[Wine] bottles get filled with wine.’ Then they'll [mock] at you, ‘Don't we already know that [wine] bottles get filled with wine?’

Then you'll answer the [brats], ‘YHVH says, “See [your future! Watch] me fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunken [stupor].
The brain fog.

I [come to] dash the [jerks] against each other. [I bash] the fathers and the sons together [in mass graves]’, warns YHVH. ‘I refuse to pity, or spare, or have mercy, 😇. I destroy the [liars].’”

Expand [your ears], 😇. Hear! Stop [suffocating in] arrogance! YHVH speaks [your future].

Give glory to YHVH your Elohim, before he [shrouds you in your own] darkness, before your feet stumble on the dark mountains. [Repent, 😇.] Or soon he turns the light you seek into the shadow of death. [He] smothers [villains] in gloom.

If you [continue to refuse] to hear [YAH's voice], I [the prophet] will [hide in] a secret place while my life-breath moans over your arrogance. My eye[s] will weep until [my eyelids bleed. My blood will] run down [my face] with tears, when [attackers] carry away YHVH's [fallen] flock as slaves.

[YAH adds,] “Say to the [evil] king and queen, ‘Humble yourselves. Come down off your thrones. [Sit in ashes with the beggars you despise. Look!] Your dominion crashes down like the crown falling from your [severed] head.

[See the future! Armies] besiege the cities of the Negev desert, 😇. No one can [break through the arrays of soldiers] to open the [cities to bring in food and water]. [Attackers] drag all of Judea into exile. They sweep the entire country into slavery, 😇.

Lift up your eyes! See [invaders] stream from the north to [annihilate] the flock [of people YAH] gave you [to protect], your beautiful nation.’”

You trained the [pagan leaders] to be your heads, to be rulers over you, 😇. What will you say when [YAH] punishes you? Won't sorrows seize you, like a woman suffering [birth] pangs?
You voted in their bogus elections. You took their government handouts and grants. You paid into their insurance plans and voluntary taxation schemes. Now they're dragging you into slavery.

You come to cry in your heart, “Why is this happening to me?!” Your overflowing evil [brings soldiers to] rip off your skirts. They strip you naked. They violate your rear-end[s].
Or "strip your heels bare." #6119 `aqeb aw-kabe' from 6117; a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track; figuratively, the rear (of an army): heel, hoof, last, step.

Can the Ethiopian morph his skin [white]? Can a leopard [change] his spots? [No.] Just like you evil-addicts can't do good [without miraculous help].
All things are possible with YAH. This is one of the Bible's very few comments on skin shade (misnomered ‘race’).

[YAH continues,] “So I scatter the [infidels], 😇. Like [hay] stubble, [they] fly away in the desert wind.

[The hurricane of death] is your [hypocrite's] inheritance, your allowance from my [heavenly] treasures,” decrees YHVH, “because you keep forgetting me. You trust in lies.

So I lift your skirts over your faces. I expose your shame [to the universe].

I'm sick of watching your adultery, your lustful-neighing, your lewd whoredom, your abominations on the hills [and] in the fields. Oh, Jerusalem! Woe [descends upon] you! How long until you let me clean you up?”