Jeremiah 13:7
and I go to Phrat, and dig, and take the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and lo, the girdle hath been marred, it is not profitable for anything.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Thus said Jehovah:
Cross References
Isaiah 64:6And we are as unclean — all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf — all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
Jeremiah 24:1Jehovah hath shewed me, and lo, two baskets of figs, appointed before the temple of Jehovah, — after the removing by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the heads of Judah, and the artisan, and the smith, from Jerusalem, when he bringeth them into Babylon —
Ezekiel 15:3Is wood taken from it to use for work? Do they take of it a pin to hang any vessel on it?
Luke 14:34'The salt [is] good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
Philemon 1:11who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,
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 →