“Take the [a]sash that you acquired, which is [b]around your waist, and arise, go to the [c]Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:4 waistband
  2. Jeremiah 13:4 Lit. upon your loins
  3. Jeremiah 13:4 Heb. Perath

10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to (A)Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the (B)Lord will (C)redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

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63 Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, (A)that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. 64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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Longing for Zion in a Foreign Land

137 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.

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