“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.”
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
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.
Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.