By the rivers of Bavel, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.
Jeremiah 13:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Perat, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Take the girdle which you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the [river] Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. American Standard Version (1901) Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. Common English Bible Take the undergarment that you are wearing and go at once to the Euphrates and put it under a rock. Catholic Public Domain Version "Take the waistcloth, which you obtained, which is around your loins, and, rising up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in an opening of the rock." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise. And go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock. |
By the rivers of Bavel, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.
Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Tziyon, like a woman in travail; yor now you will go forth out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Bavel. There you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
Now Yochanan himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.