3 Then the lord gave me another message:
4 “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.”
5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates as the lord had instructed me.
6 A long time afterward the lord said to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.”
7 So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.
8 Then I received this message from the lord:
9 “This is what the lord says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.