Jeremiah 13:7-9

Young's Literal Translation

⁷ and I go to Phrat, and dig, and take the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and lo, the girdle hath been marred, it is not profitable for anything.

⁸ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Thus said Jehovah:

⁹ Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem.