'Loins' in the Bible

Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

‘Ask now, and seeIf a male can give birth.Why do I see every manWith his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?And why have all faces turned pale?

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.