3 Then the Lord spoke to me again and said,
4 “Take the shorts that you bought and are wearing and go at once to Perath. Bury the shorts there in a crack in the rocks.”
5 So I went and buried them at Perath as the Lord had ordered me to do.
6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to Perath and get the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”
7 So I went to Perath and dug up the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found that they were ruined; they were good for nothing.
8 Then the Lord said to me,
9 “I, the Lord, say: ‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.