⁸ Or were you expecting to see a man dressed in expensive clothes? No, people with expensive clothes live in palaces.

⁴ John’s clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.

⁴ “On that day people will be ashamed to claim the prophetic gift. No one will pretend to be a prophet by wearing prophet’s clothes.

² the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.

⁸ They replied, “He was a hairy man,^[a] and he wore a leather belt around his waist.”

“Elijah from Tishbe!” the king exclaimed.

³ And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days.”

²⁷ I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.

¹¹ Even now we go hungry and thirsty, and we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. We are often beaten and have no home.