Jeremiah 13:4-9

4“Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to 1the 2Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.” 5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, 3as the Lord had commanded me. 6After many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there 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 lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.

8Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9“Thus says the Lord, ‘Just so will I destroy the 4pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.