Jeremiah 6:25-27

Expanded Bible

²⁵ Don’t go out into the fields
    or walk down the ·roads [paths],
because the enemy has swords.
    There is terror on every side.
²⁶ ·My people [^LDaughter of my people], put on ·rough cloth [sackcloth; burlap]
    and roll in the ashes [^Cmourning rituals].
·Cry loudly for those who are dead,
    as if your only son were dead [^LMake mourning/Wail for your only son, a bitter lamentation],
because the destroyer
    will ·soon [or suddenly] come against us.