Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 13:7
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“After these things let us look at what concerns the loincloth. For "Thus," it says, "says the Lord: Go and acquire for yourself a linen loincloth, and put it around your loins, and do not pass it through water. And I acquired a loincloth according to the word of the Lord and put it around my loins. And the word of the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.
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5So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.
— Jeremiah 13:7 —
8And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
9Thus will I mar the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;