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25 Do not go out into the field,
    or walk on the road;
for the enemy has a sword,
    terror is on every side.”

26 O my poor people, put on sackcloth,
    and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only child,
    most bitter lamentation:
for suddenly the destroyer
    will come upon us.

27 I have made you a tester and a refiner[a] among my people
    so that you may know and test their ways.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:27 Or a fortress

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