CAB(i)
1 Thus says the Lord: Go and procure for yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.
2 So I procured the sash according to the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist.
3 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
4 Take the sash that is around your waist, and get up, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
7 So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the sash out of the place where I had buried it. And behold, it was ruined, utterly good for nothing.
8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord,
9 Thus will I ruin the pride of Judah, and the pride of Jerusalem;
10 even this great pride of the men that will not listen to My words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them. And they shall be as this sash, which is profitable for nothing.
11 For as a sash clings about the waist of a man, so have I caused the house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me; that they might be to Me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory. But they did not hearken to Me.