“And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.”
The retrieval: 'So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the crevice where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined and completely useless.' This verse describes Jeremiah retrieving the belt: when he 'dug it up,' he found it 'ruined and completely useless.' The deterioration during its burial is the pivotal moment of the parable. Theologically, this verse indicates that something valuable has been destroyed through hidden processes.
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