Jeremiah 6:26

6:26 So I said, “Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth

and roll in ashes.

Mourn with painful sobs

as though you had lost your only child.

For any moment now that destructive army

will come against us.”


tn These words are not in the text but are implicit from the context.

tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the translator’s note there.

tn Heb “suddenly.”

tn Heb “the destroyer.”