1 This is what the Lord said to me: ‘Go and buy a linen belt and put it round your waist, but do not let it touch water.’
2 So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it round my waist.
3 Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
4 ‘Take the belt you bought and are wearing round your waist, and go now to Perath and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.’
5 So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.
6 Many days later the Lord said to me, ‘Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.’