The word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying,
So I bought a waistband according to the word of the Lord and put it on my loins.
“Take the waistband that you have, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock.”
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings and the officials, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;