Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 13:8
A church father on this verse
“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
8And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
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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.
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.
— Jeremiah 13:8 —
9Thus will I mar the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;
10even this great pride of the men that will not hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.