Jeremiah 6:26

Jeremiah chapter 6 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and terror, are on every side.

v.26This passage

v.27I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 13:17

    But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah’s flock is taken captive.

  • Lamentations 3:48

    Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lamentations 1:2

    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Jeremiah 4:11

    At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

  • Micah 1:8

    For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.