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.
6 After many days the Lord said to me, “Go to the Euphrates, and get the belt from where I told you to bury it.”
7 So I went back to the Euphrates and dug it up. I got the belt from where I had buried it. Now the belt was ruined. It was good for nothing.
8 Then the Lord spoke his word to me. He said,
9 “This is what the Lord says: This is how I will destroy Judah’s arrogance and Jerusalem’s extreme arrogance.