Jeremiah 6:25-27

Common English Bible

²⁵ Don’t go out into the field!
    Don’t walk on the road!
        The enemies’ sword
            terrorizes at every turn.
²⁶ My people,
    put on funeral clothes and roll in ashes;
    weep and wail as for an only child,
        because the destroyer will suddenly descend upon us.

²⁷ I have made you a tester of metals,
    to examine my people^[a]
    to know and prove their ways.