12 On that day the Lord God of Hosts
called for weeping,(A) for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.

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12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day(A)
to weep(B) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair(C) and put on sackcloth.(D)

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Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,(A)
for the Lord’s burning anger(B)
has not turned away from us.

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So put on sackcloth,(A)
    lament(B) and wail,
for the fierce anger(C) of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.

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26 My dear[a] people, dress yourselves in sackcloth
and roll in the dust.(A)
Mourn as you would for an only son,(B)
a bitter lament,
for suddenly the destroyer(C) will come on us.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:26 Lit Daughter of My

26 Put on sackcloth,(A) my people,
    and roll in ashes;(B)
mourn with bitter wailing(C)
    as for an only son,(D)
for suddenly the destroyer(E)
    will come upon us.

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