1Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don`t put it in water.
2So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.
3The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,
4Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
5So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.
6It happened after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
7Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
