Jer 6:26 | NETfull | STEP | 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.”

Jeremiah 6:26

26 So I said, ^{▼▼ These words are not in the text but are implicit from the context.} “Oh, my dear people, ^{▼▼ Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the translator’s note there.} put on sackcloth
and roll in ashes.
Mourn with painful sobs
as though you had lost your only child.
For any moment now ^{▼▼ Heb “suddenly.”} that destructive army ^{▼▼ Heb “the destroyer.”}
will come against us.”