Jeremiah 13:4
“Take the waistcloth, which you obtained, which is around your loins, and, rising up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in an opening of the rock.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
3And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying:
5And so I went, and I hid it by the Euphrates, just as the Lord had instructed me.
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:63And when you will have completed reading this book, you will tie a stone to it, and you will cast it into the midst of the Euphrates.
Micah 4:10Be grieved and overwhelmed, daughter of Zion, like a woman giving birth. For now you must depart from the city and dwell in the countryside, and you will approach even to Babylon. There you will be delivered. There the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your adversaries.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:2-12
The Marred Girdle. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Thus saith the Lord unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. 2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord , and put it on my loins. 3 And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, 4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. 6 And it came to pass after… Read the whole commentary →