King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 6:26
“O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 6
24
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
25
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
26
O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27
I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28
They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.
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