“Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath[a](A) and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:4 Or possibly to the Euphrates; similarly in verses 5-7

10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(B) you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

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63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.(A) 64 Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more(B) because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people(C) will fall.’”(D)

The words of Jeremiah end(E) here.

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Psalm 137

By the rivers of Babylon(A) we sat and wept(B)
    when we remembered Zion.(C)

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