Jeremiah 13:4
Take the girdle which thou hast bought which is upon thy loins,—and arise go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the cliff.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
3Then came the word of Yahweh unto me second time saying:
5So I went, and hid it, by the Euphrates, as Yahweh had commanded me.
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:63And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this scroll, that thou shalt bind thereunto a stone, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates,
Micah 4:10Be in labour, and bear, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in child-birth,—for, meanwhile, shalt thou go forth out of the city, and dwell in the field, and shalt come as far as Babylon, there, shalt thou be delivered, there, will Yahweh, redeem thee, out of the grasp of thine enemies.
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 →