“We have heard the report of it;
Our hands grow feeble.
Anguish has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in labor.
Do not go into the field,
Nor walk by the way.
Because of the sword of the enemy,
Fear is on every side.
O daughter of my people,
Clothe yourself with sackcloth,
And roll about in ashes!
Make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation.
For the plunderer will suddenly<>
come upon us.
I have set you as an assayer and a
fortress among My people,
That you may know and test their
way.
They are all stubborn rebels,
walking as slanderers.
They are bronze and iron,
They are all corrupters;
The bellows blow fiercely,
The lead is consumed by the fire;
The smelter refines in vain,
For the wicked are not drawn off.
People will call them rejected silver,
Because the Lord has rejected
them.”
- Jeremiah 6:27
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