1 Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.”
2 So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
3 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time,
4 “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.