“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
Writhe and groan, O daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go forth from the city and camp in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hands of your enemies.
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,