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Jeremiah 6

Jer. 6:26 KJV (With Strong’s)

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O daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
, gird
chagar (Hebrew #2296)
to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.)
KJV usage: be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side.
Pronounce: khaw-gar'
Origin: a primitive root
thee with sackcloth
saq (Hebrew #8242)
properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.)
KJV usage: sack(-cloth, -clothes).
Pronounce: sak
Origin: from 8264
, and wallow
palash (Hebrew #6428)
to roll (in dust)
KJV usage: roll (wallow) self.
Pronounce: paw-lash'
Origin: a primitive root
o thyself in ashes
'epher (Hebrew #665)
ashes
KJV usage: ashes.
Pronounce: ay'-fer
Origin: from an unused root meaning to bestrew
: make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
thee mourning
'ebel (Hebrew #60)
lamentation
KJV usage: mourning.
Pronounce: ay'-bel
Origin: from 56
q, as for an only son
yachiyd (Hebrew #3173)
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
KJV usage: darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
Pronounce: yaw-kheed'
Origin: from 3161
, most bitter
tamruwr (Hebrew #8563)
bitterness (plural as collective)
KJV usage: X most bitter(-ly).
Pronounce: tam-roor'
Origin: from 4843
lamentation
micepd (Hebrew #4553)
a lamentation
KJV usage: lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing.
Pronounce: mis-pade'
Origin: from 5594
: for the spoiler
shadad (Hebrew #7703)
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
KJV usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), X utterly, (lay) waste.
Pronounce: shaw-dad'
Origin: a primitive root
shall suddenly
pith'owm (Hebrew #6597)
from 6621; instantly
KJV usage: straightway, sudden(-ly).
Pronounce: pith-ome'
Origin: or pith.om {pith-ome'}
come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
upon us.
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Jer. 25:34• 34Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. (Jer. 25:34)
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Mic. 1:10• 10{i}Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.{/i} (Mic. 1:10)
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Lam. 1:16• 16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water,{HR}Because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me:{HR}My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (Lam. 1:16)

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Cross References

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daughter.
Jer. 6:14• 14{i}And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.{/i} (Jer. 6:14)
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Jer. 4:11• 11{i}At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind cometh from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.{/i} (Jer. 4:11)
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Jer. 8:19,21‑22• 19{i}Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?{/i}
 21{i}—For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.{/i}
 22{i}Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?{/i} (Jer. 8:19,21‑22)
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Jer. 9:1• 1Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (Jer. 9:1)
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Jer. 14:17• 17{i}And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.{/i} (Jer. 14:17)
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Isa. 22:4• 4Therefore said I, Look away from me: let me weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for the spoiling of the daughter of my people. (Isa. 22:4)
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Lam. 2:11• 11Mine eyes do fill with tears, my bowels are troubled,{HR}My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;{HR}Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. (Lam. 2:11)
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Lam. 3:48• 48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lam. 3:48)
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Lam. 4:3,6,10• 3Even the dragons draw out the breast, they suckle their young:{HR}The daughter of my people [is] cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness.
 6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,{HR}That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
 10The hands of pitiful women boiled their children;{HR}They became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lam. 4:3,6,10)
gird.
Jer. 4:8• 8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us. (Jer. 4:8)
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Jer. 25:33‑34• 33And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
 34Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. (Jer. 25:33‑34)
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Isa. 32:11• 11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] on [your] loins. (Isa. 32:11)
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Ezek. 27:30‑31• 30and shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes;
 31and they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. (Ezek. 27:30‑31)
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Mic. 1:8‑10• 8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
 9For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
 10{i}Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; at Beth-le-aphrah roll thyself in the dust.{/i} (Mic. 1:8‑10)
make thee.
Jer. 9:1,10,17‑22• 1Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
 10{i}For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.{/i}
 17{i}Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;{/i}
 18{i}and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.{/i}
 19{i}For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.{/i}
 20{i}Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.{/i}
 21{i}For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.{/i}
 22{i}Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather{/i}. (Jer. 9:1,10,17‑22)
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Jer. 13:17• 17But if ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is carried away captive. (Jer. 13:17)
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Isa. 22:12• 12And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; (Isa. 22:12)
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Lam. 1:2,16• 2{i}She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;{HR}Among all her lovers she hath no comforter;{HR}All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.{/i}
 16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water,{HR}Because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me:{HR}My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (Lam. 1:2,16)
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Ezek. 7:16‑18• 16{i}And they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for his iniquity.{/i}
 17{i}All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.{/i}
 18{i}And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.{/i} (Ezek. 7:16‑18)
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Zech. 12:10• 10And 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. (Zech. 12:10)
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Luke 7:12• 12And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd [was] with her. (Luke 7:12)
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James 4:9• 9Sorrow, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned unto mourning, and [your] joy unto heaviness. (James 4:9)
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James 5:1• 1Come then, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on. (James 5:1)
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Jer. 4:20• 20Destruction upon destruction is cried; {i}for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.{/i} (Jer. 4:20)
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Jer. 12:12• 12The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of Jehovah shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. (Jer. 12:12)
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Jer. 15:8• 8Their 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. (Jer. 15:8)
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Isa. 30:13• 13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. (Isa. 30:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Daughter 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.