1 This is what the Lord said to me: “Buy a linen belt. Put it around your waist. Don’t let it get wet.”
2 So I bought the belt, as the Lord had told me, and put it around my waist.
3 The Lord spoke his word to me again. He said,
4 “Take the belt that you bought, the one you’re wearing. Go to the Euphrates River, and bury it there in a crack in the rocks.”
5 So I went and buried it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had told me.