Jeremiah 6:26 “O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ash…”

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

American Standard Version

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 destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Geneva Bible 1599

O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.

Darby Translation

Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, [as] for an only son — bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.

Young's Literal Translation

O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.

Bible in Basic English

O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

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Cross references

“daughter”

Jeremiah 6:14 Jeremiah 4:11 Jeremiah 8:19 Jeremiah 14:17 Isaiah 22:4 Lamentations 2:11

Jeremiah 6:14 · BSB

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

Jeremiah 8:19 · BSB

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreig…

Jeremiah 14:17 · BSB

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Isaiah 22:4 · BSB

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

“gird”

Jeremiah 4:8 Isaiah 32:11 Micah 1:8–10 Jeremiah 25:33 Jeremiah 25:34 Ezekiel 27:30

Jeremiah 4:8 · BSB

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Isaiah 32:11 · BSB

Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Micah 1:8–10 · BSB

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Jeremiah 25:33 · BSB

Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Jeremiah 25:34 · BSB

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

Ezekiel 27:30 · BSB

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

“make thee”

Zechariah 12:10 Jeremiah 9:10 Jeremiah 9:17–22 Jeremiah 13:17 Isaiah 22:12 Lamentations 1:2

Zechariah 12:10 · BSB

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and gr…

Jeremiah 9:10 · BSB

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the…

Jeremiah 9:17–22 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Jeremiah 13:17 · BSB

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Isaiah 22:12 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Lamentations 1:2 · BSB

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

“for the”

Jeremiah 4:20 Jeremiah 12:12 Jeremiah 15:8 Isaiah 30:13

Jeremiah 4:20 · BSB

Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 12:12 · BSB

Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

Isaiah 30:13 · BSB

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

Also

Amos 8:10

Amos 8:10 · BSB

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

27“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

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