Jeremiah 13:6

6 Some time later the Lord told me to go back to the Euphrates and get the shorts.

Jeremiah 13:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:6

And it came to pass after many days
When the girdle had lain long in the hole, by the side of Euphrates; this denotes the length of the Babylonish captivity, which was seventy years: that the Lord said unto me, arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle
from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there;
which may denote the return of these people from captivity, according to the prophecy of Jeremiah; see ( Jeremiah 25:11 Jeremiah 25:12 ) , though this seems to be visionally done, in order to express the wretched state and condition these people were in; either before the captivity, which was the cause of it; or at their return from it, when they were no better for it.

Jeremiah 13:6 In-Context

4 "Go to the Euphrates River and hide the shorts in a hole in the rocks."

5 So I went and hid them near the Euphrates.

6 Some time later the Lord told me to go back to the Euphrates and get the shorts.

7 So I went back, and when I found the place where I had hidden them, I saw that they were ruined and were no longer any good.

8 Then the Lord spoke to me again. He said,