After a long time, the Lord said to me: Go now to the Perath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there.
Obedient to the Lord’s command, I went to the Perath and buried the loincloth.
So I went to the Perath, looked for the loincloth and took it from the place I had hidden it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!
Then I looked and there above the firmament over the heads of the cherubim was something like a sapphire, something that looked like a throne.
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a vast and mighty army! Nothing like it has ever happened in ages past, nor will the future hold anything like it, even to the most distant generations.
People were burned by the scorching heat and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, but they did not repent or give him glory.