Jeremiah 6:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ My people,
    put on funeral clothes and roll in ashes;
    weep and wail as for an only child,
        because the destroyer will suddenly descend upon us.

²⁷ I have made you a tester of metals,
    to examine my people^[a]
    to know and prove their ways.
²⁸ They are tin^[b] and iron;
    they are headstrong and rebellious.
They live to slander.
    They act corruptly—every last one!