The LORD said, *As my servant Yeshaiyahu has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Kush,
Jeremiah 13:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Thus says the LORD to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THUS THE Lord said to me: Go and buy yourself a linen girdle and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water. American Standard Version (1901) Thus saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Common English Bible The LORD proclaimed to me: Go and buy a linen undergarment. Wear it for a while without washing it. Catholic Public Domain Version Thus says the Lord to me: "Go, and obtain for yourself a linen waistcloth. And you shall place it over your loins, and you shall not put it into water." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy loins and shalt not put it into water. |
The LORD said, *As my servant Yeshaiyahu has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Kush,
For as the belt cleaves to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Yisra'el and the whole house of Yehudah, says the LORD; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
Thus said the LORD, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the Kohanim;
Thus says the LORD to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Par`oh's house in Tachpanches, in the sight of the men of Yehudah;
Coming to us, and taking Sha'ul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, *Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Judeans at Yerushalayim bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'*
God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,