Jeremiah 13:4

4 "Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing,^[a] and go at once to the Euphrates River and hide it in a rocky crevice."

Jeremiah 13:4 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:4

Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is upon thy loins,
&c.] Either he is bid to take it off his loins, on which it was; or to go with it on them; seeing the taking it off does not seem absolutely necessary; and go with it to the place directed to in the following words: and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock;
by the river side, where the waters, coming and going, would reach and wet it, and it drying again, would rot the sooner. This signifies the carrying of the Jews captive to Babylon, by which city the river Euphrates ran, and the obscure state and condition they would be in there; and where all their pride and glory would be marred, as afterwards declared.

Jeremiah 13:4 In-Context

2 So I bought underwear as the Lord instructed me and put it on.

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

4 "Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Euphrates River and hide it in a rocky crevice."

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

6 A long time later the Lord said to me, "Go at once to the Euphrates and get the underwear that I commanded you to hide there."

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit wearing around your waist