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.
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After many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there."
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Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.
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"Thus says the LORD , 'Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
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'This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.