“Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
And the word of the Lord came to me a second time,
Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.