1. Thus the Lord said to me, "Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water."
2. So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the Lord and put it around my waist.
3. Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
4. "Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock."