Jeremiah 13:1-7

New International Reader's Version

A Linen Belt

13 The Lord said to me, “Go and buy a linen belt. Put it around your waist. But do not let it get wet.” ² So I bought a belt, just as the Lord had told me to do. And I put it around my waist.

³ Then another message from the Lord came to me. The Lord said, ⁴ “Take off the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist. Go to Perath. Hide the belt there in a crack in the rocks.” ⁵ So I went and hid it at Perath. I did just as the Lord had told me to do.

⁶ Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go to Perath. Get the belt I told you to hide there.” ⁷ So I went to Perath. I dug up the belt. I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But it had rotted. It was completely useless.