Jeremiah 13:7
Then went I to Perath, and digged, and tooke the girdle from the place where I had hid it, and behold, the girdle was corrupt, and was profitable for nothing.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
8Then the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
Cross References
Isaiah 64:6But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.
Jeremiah 24:1The Lord shewed me, and beholde, two baskets of figges were set before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away captiue Ieconiah ye sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah with the workemen, and cunning men of Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babel.
Ezekiel 15:3Shall wood bee taken thereof to doe any worke? or wil men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Luke 14:34Salt is good: but if salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Philemon 1:11Which in times past was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable both to thee and to me,
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 →