Jeremiah 6:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁴ We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.

²⁵ Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.

²⁶ Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.