Jeremiah 13:4

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

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.

American King James Version (AKJV)

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.

American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

Webster's Revision

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.

English Revised Version (ERV)

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.

Definitions for Jeremiah 13:4

Girdle - Belt.
Loins - The lower back; waist.

Clarke's Jeremiah 13:4 Bible Commentary

Go to Euphrates, and hide it there - Intending to point out, by this distant place, the country into which they were to be carried away captive.

Barnes's Jeremiah 13:4 Bible Commentary

In a hole of the rock - "In a cleft of the rock." As there are no fissured rocks in Babylonia, the place where Jeremiah hid the girdle must have been somewhere in the upper part of the river.