Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 6:26
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 26) Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth and sprinkle yourself with ashes, mourn for the only begotten (or beloved), make for yourself a bitter lament (or miserable), because the devastator (or misery) will come suddenly upon us (or upon you). For he had said before: Do not go out to the fields a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
26O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.
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In context
24We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
25Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
— Jeremiah 6:26 —
27I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.
28They are all disobedient, walking perversely: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.