World English Bible
Jeremiah 6:26
“Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 6
24
We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
25
Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
26
Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
27
I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
28
They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
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