⁸ So they answered him, ^(A)“A hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist.”

And he said, ^(B)“It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

² at the same time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and remove ^(A)the sackcloth from your ^[a]body, and take your sandals off your feet.” And he did so, ^(B)walking naked and barefoot.

⁴ Now ^(A)John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was ^(B)locusts and ^(C)wild honey.