Jeremiah 13:1-7 NIV

[1] This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” [2] So I bought a belt, as the LORD directed, and put it around my waist. [3] Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time: [4] “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.” [5] So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me. [6] Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.” [7] So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.