Jeremiah 13:1-7

Good News Translation

The Linen Shorts

13 The Lord told me to go and buy myself some linen shorts and to put them on; but he told me not to put them in water. ² So I bought them and put them on. ³ Then the Lord spoke to me again and said, ⁴ “Go to the Euphrates River and hide the shorts in a hole in the rocks.” ⁵ So I went and hid them near the Euphrates.

⁶ Some time later the Lord told me to go back to the Euphrates and get the shorts. ⁷ So I went back, and when I found the place where I had hidden them, I saw that they were ruined and were no longer any good.