3 Then the Lord said,
4 “Take off the shorts. Go to Parah and hide the shorts in a crack between some large rocks.”
5 And that's what I did.
6 Some time later the Lord said, “Go back and get the shorts.”
7 I went back and dug the shorts out of their hiding place, but the cloth had rotted, and the shorts were ruined.
8 Then the Lord said:
9 Jeremiah, I will use Babylonia to destroy the pride of the people of Judah and Jerusalem.