1 the Lord said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
2 So I bought a belt according to the Lord’s word, and put it on my waist.
3 the Lord’s word came to me the second time, saying,
4 “Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6 After many days, the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.”