For as this girdle holds fast to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me for a people, and for a name, and for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.
Take great stones to your hand and hide them in the mortar in the brickwork which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
And coming to us, and taking Paul’s girdle-band, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: In Jerusalem the Jews will bind in this way the man whose girdle-band this is, and will give him over into the hands of the nations.