2So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
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But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. A sign, the marring of a girdle, which the prophet had worn for some time, by hiding it in a hole of a rock near the river Euphrates. It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs, that a stupid unthinking people might be brought to consider, and believe, and be affected with what was thus set before them. 1. He was to wear a linen girdle for some time, Jer. 13:1 , 2 . Some think he…
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