Then Adonai said: “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,
Jeremiah 13:1 - Tree of Life Version Thus Adonai said to me: “Go, and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, and do not 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. |
Then Adonai said: “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,
For just as the waistband clings to a man’s waist, so I will make the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me,” declares Adonai, “to be to Me a people, a name, a praise and a glory. But they would not obey.”
“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”
Thus said Adonai: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar, take some elders of the people, some elders of the kohanim,
thus says Adonai to me—“Make straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.
“Take some large stones in your hand and hide them in the mortar in the brickwork at the entrance of Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.
He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet, and said, “The Ruach ha-Kodesh says this: ‘In this way shall the Jewish people in Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
At many times and in many ways, God spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets.