1. This is what the Lord said to me: “Jeremiah, go and buy a linen loincloth. Then put it around your waist. Don’t let it get wet.”
2. So I bought a linen loincloth, just as the Lord told me to do, and I put it around my waist.
3. Then the message from the Lord came to me a second time.
4. This was the message: “Jeremiah, take the loincloth you bought and are wearing, and go to Perath. Hide the loincloth there in a crack in the rocks.”
5. So I went to Perath and hid the loincloth there, just as the Lord told me to do.
6. Many days later the Lord said to me, “Now, Jeremiah, go to Perath. Get the loincloth that I told you to hide there.”