So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined--of no use at all.
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:6Many days later the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."
Jeremiah 13:8Then the word of the LORD came to me:
Treasury of Scripture
Then I went to Euphrates, and dig, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
it was.
Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah 24:1-8
The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon…
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
