Jeremiah 6:26 KJV
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.
Words Then and Now
- gird to bind on, as with a belt Still heard today: gird yourself for battle, get ready Webster’s 1828 · Gird
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Thou and Ye
- thee, thyself one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- All methods used to amend them had been without successGod rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to...
Thompson Chains
- SackclothSee the chain from Genesis 37:34 · 11 links
- Destruction (2)See the chain from Isaiah 34:2 · 5 links
- Lamentations (2)Link 2 of 5 · next Joel 1:8
Parallel Passages
- Jeremiah 4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Jeremiah 4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
- Zechariah 12:10 And 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.
- Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
- Isaiah 22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
- Jeremiah 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
- Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
- Jeremiah 8:21–9:1 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. …
- Jeremiah 9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
- Jeremiah 9:17–22 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: …
- Jeremiah 12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
- Jeremiah 13:17 But 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 the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
- Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
- Jeremiah 15:8 Their 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.
- Jeremiah 25:33–34 And the slain of the LORD 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. …
- Lamentations 1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
- Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
- Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
- Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezekiel 7:16–18 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. …
- Ezekiel 27:30–31 And 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: …
- Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Micah 1:8–10 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. …
- Luke 7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
- James 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
- James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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Topics
- Israel, prophecies concerning Of war and other judgments
- Sackcloth A symbol of mourning
- Sin The Israelites
- War Evils of
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible629–588 BC · Jeremiah, in the days of Josiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah
Hebrew and Strong’s
- O daughter בַּת bat בַּת Noun · feminine singular construct
- of my people עַמִּי ʿammî עַם Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- gird חִגְרִי ḥigrî חָגַר Verb · qal imperative, second person feminine singular
- with sackcloth שָׂק śāq שַׂק Noun · masculine singular
- and wallow וְהִתְפַּלְּשִׁי wĕhitpallĕšî פָּלַשׁ Verb · hithpael imperative, second person feminine singular · with and
- thyself in ashes בָאֵפֶר bāʾēper אֵפֶר Noun · masculine singular · with preposition with the
- make עֲשִׂי ʿăśî עָשָׂה Verb · qal imperative, second person feminine singular
- thee mourning אֵבֶל ʾēbel אֵבֶל Noun · masculine singular
- an only son יָחִיד yāḥîd יָחִיד Adjective · masculine singular
- most bitter תַּמְרוּרִים tamrûrîm תַּמְרוּר Noun · masculine plural
- lamentation לָךְ lāk Preposition · with suffix: second person feminine singular מִסְפַּד mispad מִסְפֵּד Noun · masculine singular construct
- for the spoiler הַשֹּׁדֵד haššōdēd שָׁדַד Verb · qal active participle, masculine singular · with the עָלֵינוּ ʿālênû Preposition · with suffix: first person common plural
- shall suddenly כִּי kî Conjunction פִתְאֹם pitʾōm פִּתְאוֹם Adverb
- come יָבֹא yābōʾ בּוֹא Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0
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