6 After a long time, the Lord said to me: Go now to the Perath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there.
7 So I went to the Perath, looked for the loincloth and took it from the place I had hidden it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!
8 Then the word came to me from the Lord:
9 Thus says the Lord: So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot, the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and follow other gods, serving and worshiping them, will be like this loincloth, good for nothing.
11 For, as the loincloth clings to a man’s loins, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me—oracle of the Lord—to be my people, my fame, my praise, my glory. But they did not listen.
12 Now speak to them this word: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Every wineflask should be filled with wine. If they reply, “Do we not know that every wineflask should be filled with wine?”