Jeremiah 13 (World English Bible)  View In My Bible 1 Thus says
Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your
loins, and don't put it in water. 2 So I bought a belt according
to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins. 3 The word of
Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, 4 Take the belt that
you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the
Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. 5 So I
went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. 6 It
happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to
the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded
you to hide there. 7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and
took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold,
the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing. 8 Then the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 9 Thus says Yahweh, After
this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride
of Jerusalem. 10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words,
who walk in the st