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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A long time afterward the LORD said to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.”
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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.
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“This is what the LORD says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.
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These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!