“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.”
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city to camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the Lord will redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.
John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.