Jeremiah 13:7

7 So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.

Jeremiah 13:7 in Other Translations

7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.

7 So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.

7 So I went back to Perath and dug them out of the place where I had hidden them. The shorts by then had rotted and were worthless.

7 So I went to the Euphrates and dug up the underwear and got it from the place where I had hidden it, but it was ruined-of no use whatsoever.

Jeremiah 13:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:7

Then I went to Euphrates
In a vision; this is the second journey, of which (See Gill on Jeremiah 13:5), and digged;
the hole, in process of time, being stopped up with soil or sand, that were thrown up over it; this digging was in a visionary way; see ( Ezekiel 8:8 ) : and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it;
which he knew again by some token or another: and, behold, the girdle was marred;
or "corrupted" ^F17; it was become rotten by the washing of the water over it, and its long continuance in such a place: it was profitable for nothing;
it could not be put upon a man's loins, or be wore any more; nor was it fit for any other use, it was so sadly spoiled and so thoroughly rotten. It is in the Hebrew text, "it shall not prosper to all" ^F18 things; that is, not "to anything" ^F19, as many render it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (txvn) "corruptum erat", Munster, Montanus, Schmidt; "computruerat", Pagninus.
F18 (lkl xluy al) "non proficiet omnibus", Vatablus.
F19 "Non prosperabitur cuiquam", Montanus; "ad ullam rem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Jeremiah 13:7 In-Context

5 So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me.

6 Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.”

7 So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.

8 Then the word of the LORD came to me:

9 “This is what the LORD says: ‘In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.