Jeremiah 6:26 BBE

²⁴  The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

²⁵  Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

²⁶  O 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.

²⁷  I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

²⁸  All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.