Jeremiah 6:25-27

New Living Translation

²⁵ Don’t go out to the fields!
    Don’t travel on the roads!
The enemy’s sword is everywhere
    and terrorizes us at every turn!
²⁶ Oh, my people, dress yourselves in burlap
    and sit among the ashes.
Mourn and weep bitterly, as for the loss of an only son.
    For suddenly the destroying armies will be upon you!

²⁷ “Jeremiah, I have made you a tester of metals,^[a]
    that you may determine the quality of my people.