1. This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment and put it on, but do not put it in water.”
2. So I bought underwear as the Lord instructed me and put it on.
3. Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time:
4. “Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to the Euphrates and hide it in a rocky crevice.”
5. So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
6. A long time later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to the Euphrates and get the underwear that I commanded you to hide there.”
7. So I went to the Euphrates and dug up the underwear and got it from the place where I had hidden it, but it was ruined — of no use at all.
8. Then the word of the Lord came to me: