Jeremiah 13:7

7 So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined; it was good for nothing.

Jeremiah 13:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:7

Then I went to Euphrates
In a vision; this is the second journey, of which (See Gill on Jeremiah 13:5), and digged;
the hole, in process of time, being stopped up with soil or sand, that were thrown up over it; this digging was in a visionary way; see ( Ezekiel 8:8 ) : and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it;
which he knew again by some token or another: and, behold, the girdle was marred;
or "corrupted" ^F17; it was become rotten by the washing of the water over it, and its long continuance in such a place: it was profitable for nothing;
it could not be put upon a man's loins, or be wore any more; nor was it fit for any other use, it was so sadly spoiled and so thoroughly rotten. It is in the Hebrew text, "it shall not prosper to all" ^F18 things; that is, not "to anything" ^F19, as many render it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (txvn) "corruptum erat", Munster, Montanus, Schmidt; "computruerat", Pagninus.
F18 (lkl xluy al) "non proficiet omnibus", Vatablus.
F19 "Non prosperabitur cuiquam", Montanus; "ad ullam rem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Jeremiah 13:7 In-Context

5 So I went to Perath and hid the belt there, just as the Lord told me.

6 Many days later the Lord said to me, "Now go 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 where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined; it was good for nothing.

8 Then the Lord spoke his word to me.

9 This is what the Lord said: "In the same way I will ruin the pride of the people of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.