Jeremiah 6:26 meaning and explanation
O 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.
Jeremiah 6:26, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the prophet Jeremiah, voicing God's grief over Jerusalem as the Babylonian army approaches from the north. He addresses the city as "daughter of my people," a tender phrase that makes the coming judgment personal rather than abstract.
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