Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
Euphrates In order to support the view that Jeremiah's act outward Henderson considers that the Hebrew Euphrates. In order to support the view that Jeremiah's act outward, Henderson considers that the Hebrew "Pratha" or "Phrath" х pªraataah (H6578), abbreviated from 'epraat] here is Ephratha, the original name of Bethlehem, six miles south of Jerusalem, a journey easy to be made by Jeremiah. The non-addition of the word "river," which usually precedes Phrath, when meaning Euphrates, favours this view. But I prefer the English version. "Euphrates" occurs without "river" added in 2 Chronicles 35:20; Jeremiah 51:63. The word is from a root х paaraah (H6509)] to increase and fructify. The Euphrates is specified as being near Babylon, the Jews' future place of exile.
Hide it there in a hole - typical of the prisons in which the Jews were to he confined.
The rock - some well-known rock. A sterile region, such as was that to which the Jews were led away (cf. Isaiah 7:19). (Grotius.)