Jeremiah 6:24-26

International Standard Version

²⁴ We have heard the news about it,
    and our hands are limp.
Distress has seized us
    like a woman in labor.
²⁵ Don’t go out into the field,
    and don’t travel on the road,
because the enemy has a sword,
    and terror is on every side.
²⁶ Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
    and roll in ashes.
Mourn with bitter wailing,
    as one mourns at the death of^[a] an only son.
For the destroyer will come on us suddenly.