Jeremiah 13:4-9

4“Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.”

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

6Now it came to pass after many days that the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the sash which I commanded you to hide there.”

7Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the sash from the place where I had hidden it; and there was the sash, ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

8Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

9“Thus says the Lord: ‘In this manner I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.