Jeremiah 13:6

6 {And then}, {after a long time}, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go [to the] Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."

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 "Take the loincloth that you bought, that [is] on your loins, and stand up, go [to the] Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock."

5 So I went and hid it by [the] Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me.

6 {And then}, {after a long time}, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go [to the] Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."

7 Then I went [to the] Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything.

8 {And then} the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "And it happened"
• [b]. Literally "from the end of many days"