3 Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying,
4 “Take the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”
5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me.
6 And then, after a long time, then Yahweh said to me, “Stand up, 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 I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything.
8 And then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
9 “Thus says Yahweh: ‘So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.