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25 Don’t go out into the fields.
    Don’t go on the roads
because the enemy has swords,
    and there is danger everywhere.
26 My people, put on sackcloth
    and roll in the ashes.[a]
Cry loudly for the dead.
    Cry as if you lost an only son.
Do this because the destroyer
    will come against us very quickly.

27 “Jeremiah, I want you to be
    like a worker who tests metals.
You will test my people
    and watch how they live.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:26 roll in the ashes This is one way people showed that they were sad or crying for a dead person.

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