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26 O daughter of my people, (A)gird yourself with sackcloth
And (B)roll in ashes;
[a](C)Mourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.

27 “I have (D)made you a tester of metals and [b]an assayer among My people,
That you may know and test their way.”
28 All of them are rebelliously stubborn,
(E)Going about as a slanderer.
They are (F)bronze and iron;
They, all of them, are corrupt.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:26 Lit Make for yourself mourning
  2. Jeremiah 6:27 Or a fortification