Jeremiah 6 · Verse 26

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 6:26, King James Version

Jeremiah 6:26 in other translations

BSBO daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
WEBDaughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
ASVO daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
YLTO daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.
DARBYDaughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, as for an only son — bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.
BBEO daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.
WebsterO daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

What does Jeremiah 6:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. wallow ... in ashes--(Jr 25:34; Mi 1:10). As they usually in mourning only "cast ashes on the head," wallowing in them means something more, namely, so entirely to cover one's self with ashes as to be like one who had rolled in them (Eze 27:30). as for an only son--(Am 8:10; Zec 12:10). lamentation--literally, "lamentation expressed by beating the breast."

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 6:18-30

God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they provoke God. The sins of God's professing people make them an easy prey to their enemies. They dare not show themselves. Saints may rejoice in hope of God's mercies, though they see them only in the promise: sinners must mourn…

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Jeremiah 6:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בַּת\־bat-O daughter ofH1323
עַמִּ֤י'a.Mipeople myH5971
חִגְרִי\־chig.ri-gird yourselfH2296
שָׂק֙saksackclothH8242
וְהִתְפַּלְּשִׁ֣יve.hit.pa.le.Shiand rollH6428
בָאֵ֔פֶרva.'E.ferin <the> ash[es]H665
אֵ֤בֶל'E.vel[the] mourning ofH60
יָחִיד֙ya.Chidan only [child]H3173
עֲשִׂ֣י'a.SiobserveH6213
לָ֔ךְLakhfor <the> yourself
מִסְפַּ֖דmis.Padwailing ofH4553
תַּמְרוּרִ֑יםtam.ru.Rimbitterness<es>H8563
כִּ֣יkiforH3588
פִתְאֹ֔םfit.'OmsuddenlyH6597
יָבֹ֥אya.Vo'it will comeH935
הַשֹּׁדֵ֖דha.sho.Dedthe destroyerH7703
עָלֵֽינוּ\׃'a.Lei.nuon usH5921

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 6:26

  • Zechariah 12:10

    And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

  • Jeremiah 4:8

    For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Lamentations 4:6

    For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

  • Isaiah 30:13

    Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

  • Jeremiah 9:17-22

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. …

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Lamentations 3:48

    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lamentations 1:2

    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

  • Lamentations 2:11

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Jeremiah 15:8

    Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

  • Jeremiah 4:11

    At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

  • Micah 1:8-10

    Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
daughter.
14; 4:11; 8:19,21,22; 9:1; 14:17; Isa 22:4; La 2:11; 3:48; 4:3,6,10
gird.
4:8; 25:33,34; Isa 32:11; Eze 27:30,31; Mic 1:8-10
make thee.
9:1,10,17-22; 13:17; Isa 22:12; La 1:2,16; Eze 7:16-18; Zec 12:10
Lu 7:12; Jas 4:9; 5:1
for the.
4:20; 12:12; 15:8; Isa 30:13

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Context

  • Jeremiah 6:25

    Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

  • Jeremiah 6:26

    O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Jeremiah 6:27

    I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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Jeremiah 6:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Hija de mi pueblo, cíñete de saco, y revuélcate en ceniza; hazte luto como por hijo único, llanto de amarguras: porque presto vendrá sobre nosotros el destruidor.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Fille de mon peuple, ceins-toi d’un sac, et roule-toi dans la cendre; mène deuil comme pour un fils unique, fais une lamentation amère, car le dévastateur est venu subitement sur nous.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Tochter meines Volkes, gürte dir Sacktuch um und wälze dich in der Asche, trauere wie um den Eingeborenen, führe bittere Klage! denn plötzlich wird der Verwüster über uns kommen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Filia populi mei, accingere cilicio, et conspergere cinere: luctum unigeniti fac tibi, planctum amarum, quia repente veniet vastator super nos.