“Take the belt that you have bought, which is around your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.
Then the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying,
“Writhe and labor to give birth, Daughter of Zion, Like a woman in childbirth; For now you will go out of the city, Dwell in the field, And go to Babylon. There you will be delivered; There Yahweh will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.
Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.