1. This is what the lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it on, but do not wash it.”
2. So I bought the loincloth as the lord directed me, and I put it on.
3. Then the lord gave me another message:
4. “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.”
5. So I went and hid it by the Euphrates as the lord had instructed me.
6. A long time afterward the lord said to me, “Go back to the Euphrates and get the loincloth I told you to hide there.”
7. So I went to the Euphrates and dug it out of the hole where I had hidden it. But now it was rotting and falling apart. The loincloth was good for nothing.