Jeremiah 13:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ And after many days the Lord said to me, ‘Go now to the Euphrates,^[a] and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.’ ⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates,^[b] and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. But now the loincloth was ruined; it was good for nothing.

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to me: