Waistcloth: Instead of repeating the noun, Good News Translation shifts to a pronoun (“So I bought them”).

According to the word of the LORD is left to be understood from verse 1 in Good News Translation; Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch translates “as the Lord had commanded me.”

For put it on my loins, see verse 1.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .