Jeremiah 13:1–9
1The LORD said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”↗
2So I bought a belt according to the LORD’s word, and put it on my waist.↗
3The LORD’s word came to me the second time, saying,↗
4“Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”↗
5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.↗
6After many days, the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”↗
7Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.↗
8Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,↗
9“The LORD says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.↗
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