Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. ] Or the word of prophecy from before the Lord, as the Targum; and now follows the application of this sign to the thing signified, and the whole intention of it is opened.
6
And after many days the Lord said to me, "Go now to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."
7
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. But now the loincloth was ruined; it was good for nothing.
9
Thus says the Lord: Just so I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own will and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.
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