Jeremiah 6:26 Cross References - NSB

²⁶ O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

⁴ I said: »Turn away from me. Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.«

¹² In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

¹³ »For that reason your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

¹¹ Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

⁸ »Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah’s burning anger has not turned back from us.

¹¹ Then it will be said to these people and to Jerusalem: »A hot wind from the heights will blow in the desert toward my people. It will not be a wind that winnows or cleanses.

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant.

¹⁴ »‘Superficially they have healed the brokenness of my people. They declare: ‘Peace! Peace!’ »But there is no peace.’«

¹⁹ Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: »Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not within her?« »Why have they provoked me with their graven images, with foreign idols?«

²¹ For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken. I mourn and dismay has taken hold of me.

¹⁰ I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

¹⁷ »Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘Consider the mourning women that they may come. Send for the wailing women that they may come! ¹⁸ Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us. Let our eyes shed tears and our eyelids flow with water. ¹⁹ A voice of wailing is heard from Zion: »How we are ruined! We are put to great shame for we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.« ²⁰ Listen to the word of Jehovah, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs. ²¹ Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places. ²² »‘This is what Jehovah says: »Dead bodies will fall like manure on the field. They will be like grain that has been cut but not gathered.«’«

¹² »Across the entire desert highlands people have come to plunder. Jehovah has sent war to destroy the entire land. No one can live in peace.

¹⁷ If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah’s flock will be taken captive.

¹⁷ »Say this to them: ‘My eyes flow with tears day and night without stopping because my dear people will suffer massive destruction. It will be a very serious blow.

⁸ »Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.

³³ »‘On that day those killed by Jehovah will stretch from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, taken away, or buried. They will become like manure on the ground.’ ³⁴ »Mourn, you shepherds, and cry. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. The time has come for you to be slaughtered. The time has come for you to be scattered, and you will break like fine pottery.

⁴⁸ Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.

³ Even the jackals of the wasteland have full breasts and give milk to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the wasteland.

⁶ The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without a hand lifted to help her.

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

² She weeps bitterly in the night. Her cheeks are wet from crying. Her lovers offer no comfort. Her friends have been false to her. They have become her enemies.

¹⁶ »For these things I weep. My eye streams with water because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy is strong.«

¹¹ My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

¹⁶ ‘»Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins. ¹⁷ ‘»Everyone’s hands will be weak, and their knees will shake and they will drip from sweat. ¹⁸ ‘»They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.

³⁰ »‘»And they will make their voice heard over you and will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes. ³¹ »‘»They will make themselves bald for you and gird themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness and with painful mourning.

¹⁰ »I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.

⁸ I [Micah] will lament and wail. I will go barefoot and naked. I will make a howling like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches. ⁹ Samaria’s wound is incurable! It came as far as Judah. It even reached to the gate of my people, Jerusalem. ¹⁰ »Do not announce it at Gath, Philistia. Do not weep or show grief. At the house of Ophrah (house of dust) roll in the dust!

¹⁰ »I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.

¹² When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her.

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.