VIN(i)
1 This is what the LORD said to me: "Go and buy a linen belt for yourself, and put it around your waist. But don't let it get wet."
2 So I bought a belt according to the LORD's word, and put it on my waist.
3 Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:
4 Take the belt that you bought and that is around your waist. Get up and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a crevice in the rock."
5 So I went, and hid it in Perath, as the LORD commanded me.
6 After a long time, the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and get the belt that I commanded you to hide there."
7 I went to the Euphrates and dug it up. I got the belt from the place where I had hidden it. The belt was ruined! It was not good for anything.
8 Then the word of the LORD came to me:
9 "This is what the LORD says: 'In the same way I'll ruin the pride of Judah and the pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing.
11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah,' says the LORD; 'that they might be my people, for a name, for praise, and for glory. But they would not listen.