Jeremiah 13:2
So I bought a very nice waistcloth, which is what Yahweh told me to do, and I put it on.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
In Context
1One day Yahweh said to me, “Go and buy a linen waistcloth. Put it on, but do not wash it.”
3Then later Yahweh gave me another message.
Cross References
Isaiah 20:2At that time, Yahweh told me, “Take off the rough sackcloth that you have been wearing and take off your sandals.” So I did what he told me to do, and then I walked around naked and barefoot for three years.
Hosea 1:2When Yahweh first began to give messages to me to tell to the people of Israel, he said to me, “Go and marry a prostitute. But some of her children will be born as a result of her having sex with men to whom she is not married. That will illustrate how the people of Israel have turned away from me and worship ◄idols/other gods►.”
John 15:14You show that you are my friends if you keep doing what I have commanded you.
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 →