Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.” New Living Translation “Take the linen loincloth you are wearing, and go to the Euphrates River. Hide it there in a hole in the rocks.” English Standard Version “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” Berean Standard Bible “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.” King James Bible Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. New King James Version “Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.” New American Standard Bible “Take the undergarment that you bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.” NASB 1995 “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.” NASB 1977 “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.” Legacy Standard Bible “Take the belt that you have bought, which is around your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.” Amplified Bible “Get up and take the waistband that you have bought, which is [wrapped] around your loins, and go to the [river] Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.” Christian Standard Bible “Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Euphrates and hide it in a rocky crevice.” Holman Christian Standard Bible “Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Euphrates and hide it in a rocky crevice.” American Standard Version Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “Take the loin cloth that you bought that is on your waist, and arise, go to Euphrates, and bury it there in a crack of the rock” Brenton Septuagint Translation Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. Contemporary English Version "Take off the shorts. Go to Parah and hide the shorts in a crack between some large rocks." Douay-Rheims Bible Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. English Revised Version Take the girdle that thou hast bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. GOD'S WORD® Translation "Take the belt that you bought, the one you're wearing. Go to the Euphrates River, and bury it there in a crack in the rocks." Good News Translation "Go to the Euphrates River and hide the shorts in a hole in the rocks." International Standard Version Take the belt that you bought and that is around your waist. Get up and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a crevice in the rock." JPS Tanakh 1917 Take the girdle that thou hast gotten, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Perath, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.' Literal Standard Version “Take the girdle that you have acquired, that [is] on your loins, and rise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock”; Majority Standard Bible “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.” New American Bible Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Perath; hide it there in a cleft of the rock. NET Bible "Take the shorts that you bought and are wearing and go at once to Perath. Bury the shorts there in a crack in the rocks." New Revised Standard Version “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” New Heart English Bible "Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Perath, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock." Webster's Bible Translation Take the girdle that thou hast procured, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. World English Bible “Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” Young's Literal Translation Take the girdle that thou hast got, that is on thy loins, and rise, go to Phrat, and hide it there in a hole of the rock; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Linen Loincloth…3Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time: 4“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.” 5So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.… Cross References Matthew 3:4 John wore a garment of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. Jeremiah 13:3 Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time: Jeremiah 51:63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates. Treasury of Scripture Take the girdle that you have got, which is on your loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. go. Jeremiah 51:63,64 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: … Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Micah 4:10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. Jump to Previous Arise Band Belt Body Bought Cleft Euphrates Euphra'tes Girdle Gotten Hide Hole Loins Parah Perath Phrat Price Procured Rise Rock Round Secret Waist Waistband Waistcloth WearingJump to Next Arise Band Belt Body Bought Cleft Euphrates Euphra'tes Girdle Gotten Hide Hole Loins Parah Perath Phrat Price Procured Rise Rock Round Secret Waist Waistband Waistcloth WearingJeremiah 13 1. By the type of a linen belt, hidden at Euphrates, 9. God prefigures the destruction of his people. 12. By the parable of bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery. 15. He exhorts to prevent their future judgments. 22. He shows their abominations are the cause thereof. (4) Go to Euphrates.--The Hebrew word Phrath is the same as that which, everywhere else in the O.T., is rendered by the Greek name for the river, Euphrates. It has been suggested (1) that the word means "river" generally, or "rushing water," applied by way of pre-eminence to the "great river" and therefore that it may have been used here in its general sense; and (2) that it may stand here for Ephratah, or Bethlehem, as the scene of Jeremiah's symbolic actions, the place being chosen on account of its suggestive likeness to Euphrates. These conjectures, however, have no other basis than the assumed improbability of a double journey of two hundred and fifty miles, and this, as has been shown, can hardly be weighed as a serious element in the question. In Jeremiah 51 there can be no doubt that the writer means Euphrates. It may be noted, too, as a coincidence confirming this view, that Jeremiah appears as personally known to Nebuchadnezzar in Jeremiah 39:11. Those who make Ephratah the scene of what is here recorded, point to the caves and clefts in the rocky region between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea as agreeing with the description. On the other hand, the form Prath is nowhere found as substituted for the familiar Ephratah. A hole of the rock.--Better, cleft. In the lower part of its course the Euphrates flows through an alluvial plain, and the words point therefore to some part of its upper course above Pylae, where its course is through a valley more or less rocky. Verses 4-6. - After Jeremiah has worn the apron for some time, he is directed to take it to P'rath, and hide it there in a cleft (not "hole") of the rock. A long interval elapses, and he is commanded to make a second journey to the same place, and fetch away the apron. What does this P'rath mean? It is by no means easy to decide. Hardly "the Euphrates,"(1) because the common prefix, "the river," is wanting, though in so extraordinary a narrative it was peculiarly needed; (2) because of the length of the journey to Babylonia, which has ex hyp. to be made twice; and (3) because the Euphrates is not a rocky river. Ewald suggested that "some wet place near Jerusalem" probably had the name of P'rath, and indicates a valley and spring called Forah, about six English miles north-east of Jerusalem. Mr. Birch appears to have hit independently on the same spot, which he identifies with the Parah of Joshua 18:23, about three miles north-east of Anatbeth, and describes as a picturesque gorge between savage rocks, with a copious stream (Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, October, 1880, p. 236). This combination, however, involves an emendation of the text (P'rath into Parah) - logically it involves this, as Mr. Birch has seen; Ewald's comparison of the Arabic furat, sweet water, seems inconsistent with his reference to Parah - for which there does not seem to be sufficient necessity; and it is better to adopt the view of the great old French Protestant scholar, Bochart, that P'rath is a shortened form of Ephrath, i.e. at once Bethlehem and the district in which Bethlehem lay (see 1 Chronicles 2:50; 1 Chronicles 4:4; and perhaps Psalm 132:6). It need hardly be said that the limestone hills of this region afforded abundance of secluded rocks. There may, of course, be at the same time an allusion to the ordinary meaning of P'rath, viz. Euphrates, on the analogy of the allusion in Isaiah 27:12. Those who hold the view here rejected, that P'rath is equivalent to the Euphrates, sometimes suppose that the narrative is a parable or symbolical fiction, such as Luther, Calvin, and others find in Hosea 1, 3, the thing signified being in this case the carrying captive of the people to Babylon; and this seems the best way of making this interpretation plausible. Hebrew “Takeקַ֧ח (qaḥ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 3947: To take the loincloth הָאֵז֛וֹר (hā·’ê·zō·wr) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 232: Something girt, a belt, a band that אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that you bought קָנִ֖יתָ (qā·nî·ṯā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7069: To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own and are wearing, עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against and go לֵ֣ךְ (lêḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk at once וְקוּם֙ (wə·qūm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand to Perath פְּרָ֔תָה (pə·rā·ṯāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 6578: Euphrates -- a river of west Asia and hide וְטָמְנֵ֥הוּ (wə·ṭā·mə·nê·hū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 2934: To hide, conceal it there שָׁ֖ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither in a crevice בִּנְקִ֥יק (bin·qîq) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 5357: Cleft (of a rock) of the rocks.” הַסָּֽלַע׃ (has·sā·la‘) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5553: A craggy rock Links Jeremiah 13:4 NIVJeremiah 13:4 NLT Jeremiah 13:4 ESV Jeremiah 13:4 NASB Jeremiah 13:4 KJV Jeremiah 13:4 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 13:4 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 13:4 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 13:4 French Bible Jeremiah 13:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 13:4 Take the belt that you have bought (Jer.) |
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