Jeremiah 13:7
Good News Translation
So I went back, and when I found the place where I had hidden them, I saw that they were ruined and were no longer any good.

New Revised Standard Version
Then I went to the Euphrates, 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.

Contemporary English Version
I went back and dug the shorts out of their hiding place, but the cloth had rotted, and the shorts were ruined.

New American Bible
So I went to the Perath, looked for the loincloth and took it from the place I had hidden it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.

it was.

Jeremiah 13:10 This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle ,which is fit for no use.

Jeremiah 24:1-8 The Lord shewed me: and behold two baskets full of figs, set before the temple of the Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. . . .

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Ezekiel 15:3-5 Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon? . . .

Zechariah 3:3,4 And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the face of the angel. . . .

Luke 14:34,35 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? . . .

Romans 3:12 All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

Philemon 1:11 Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:

Context
The Linen Loincloth
6And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there. 7And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.8And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:…
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:6
And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

Jeremiah 13:8
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Jeremiah 13:6
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