Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
So I bought a belt, as the Lord directed, and put it around my waist.
“Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.”
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn, a curse—as they are today;