Jeremiah 13:1-7

1Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.”

2So I bought the waistband according to the word of the Lord and put it on my loins.

3Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,

4“Get up and take the waistband that you have bought, which is [wrapped] around your loins, and go to the [river] Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”

5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.

6And after many days the Lord said to me, “Get up, go to the Euphrates and get the waistband which I commanded you to hide there.”

7Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistband was decayed and ruined; it was completely worthless.