Jeremiah 6:24-26

Expanded Bible

²⁴ We have heard the news about ·that army [^Lthem]
    and ·are helpless from fear [^Lour hands grow limp].
We are gripped by our ·pain [distress],
    like a woman ·having a baby [writhing in childbirth].
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.