3 Then the word of Adonai came to me a second time, saying:
4 “Take the waistband that you bought, which is on your waist, and get up, go to Perath and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
5 So I went and hid it at Perath, as Adonai commanded me.
6 Now it came to pass after many days that Adonai said to me: “Get up, go to Perath, and take the waistband that I commanded you to hide there.”
7 So I went to Perath, dug it up and took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. But to my surprise, the waistband was marred, worth nothing at all.
8 Then the word of Adonai came to me, saying,
9 thus says Adonai: “Just so I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.