1 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist. Don’t let the belt get wet.”
2 So I bought a linen belt, just as the Lord told me, and put it around my waist.
3 Then the Lord spoke his word to me a second time:
4 “Take the belt you bought and are wearing, and go to Perath. Hide the belt there in a crack in the rocks.”
5 So I went to Perath and hid the belt there, just as the Lord told me.
6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Now go to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
7 So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined; it was good for nothing.