Jeremiah 6:26

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

My people, put on sackcloth and roll in the ashes. Cry loudly for the dead. Cry as if you lost an only son. Do this because the destroyer will come against us very quickly.

Cross References

Zechariah 12:10

I will fill David’s family and the people living in Jerusalem with a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look to me, the one they stabbed, and they will be very sad. They will be as sad as someone crying over the death of their only son, as sad as someone crying over the death of their firstborn son.

Jeremiah 4:8

The Lord is angry with us, so put on sackcloth and cry out loud!

James 5:1

You rich people, listen! Cry and be very sad because much trouble will come to you.

James 4:9

Be sad, be sorry, and cry! Change your laughter into crying. Change your joy into sadness.

Luke 7:12

When Jesus came near the town gate, he saw some people carrying a dead body. It was the only son of a woman who was a widow. Walking with her were many other people from the town.

Amos 8:10

I will change your festivals into days of crying for the dead. All your songs will be songs of sadness for those who are dead. I will put mourning clothes on every body and baldness on every head. I will cause mourning everywhere, like that for an only son who has died. It will be a very bitter end.”

Lamentations 4:10

Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.

Lamentations 4:6

The sin of the daughter of my people was very great. Their sin was greater than the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed suddenly. No human hand caused their destruction.

Lamentations 4:3

Even a wild dog feeds her babies. Even the jackal lets her pups suck at her breast. But the daughter of my people is cruel. She is like the ostrich in the desert that forgets its eggs in the sand.

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with streams of tears. I cry because of the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears, and my insides are upset. My heart feels like it has been poured on the ground; I feel this way because of the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the public squares of the city.

Lamentations 1:16

“I cry about all these things. Tears are flowing down my cheeks. There is no one near to comfort me. There is no one who can make me feel better. My children are like a wasteland, because the enemy won.”

Lamentations 1:2

She cries bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her. Many nations were friendly to her, but not one of them comforts her now. All her friends have turned their backs on her and have become her enemies.

Jeremiah 15:8

Many women will lose their husbands. There will be more widows than there is sand in the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noontime. The destroyer will attack the mothers of the young men of Judah. I will bring pain and fear on the people of Judah. I will make this happen very quickly.

Jeremiah 14:17

“Jeremiah, speak this message to the people of Judah: ‘My eyes fill with tears night and day without stopping. I cry for my virgin daughter, and for my dear people, because someone hit them and crushed them. They have been hurt very badly.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you people of Judah don’t listen to him, I will hide and cry. Your pride will cause me to cry. I will cry very hard. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be captured.

Jeremiah 12:12

The empty hills are covered with soldiers who have come to destroy everything. The Lord is using them to punish that land from one end to the other. No one is safe.

Jeremiah 9:10

I, Jeremiah, will cry for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the empty fields, because all the animals were taken away. No one travels there now. The sounds of cattle cannot be heard. The birds have flown away, and the animals are gone.

Jeremiah 8:21

My people are hurt, so I am hurt. I am too sad to speak.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to my people. Everywhere in this country, people are crying for help. They say, “Is the Lord still at Zion? Is Zion’s King still there?” But God says, “The people of Judah worshiped their worthless foreign idols. That made me very angry! Why did they do that?”

Jeremiah 6:14

They should bandage the wounds my people have suffered, but they treat their wounds like small scratches. They say, ‘It’s all right, everything is all right.’ But it is not all right!

Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster follows disaster. The whole country is destroyed. Suddenly my tents are destroyed. My curtains are torn down!

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time this message will be given to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: “A hot wind blows from the bare hills. It comes from the desert to my people. It is not like the gentle wind that is used to separate the grain from the chaff.

Isaiah 32:11

Women, you are calm now, but you should be afraid. You feel safe now, but you should be worried. Take off your nice clothes and put on sackcloth. Wrap it around your waist.

Isaiah 30:13

You are guilty of these things. So you are like a tall wall with cracks in it. That wall will fall and break into small pieces.

Isaiah 22:12

So the Lord GOD All-Powerful told the people to cry and mourn for their dead friends. He told them to shave their heads and wear mourning clothes.

Isaiah 22:4

So I say, “Don’t look at me! Let me cry! Don’t rush to comfort me about the destruction of Jerusalem.”

Genesis 21:16

Then she walked a short distance away and sat down. She thought her son would die because there was no water. She did not want to watch him die. She sat there and began to cry.

Job 2:8

Job sat on the pile of ashes where he was mourning and used a piece of broken pottery to scrape his sores.

Jeremiah 9:1

If my head were filled with water, and if my eyes were a fountain of tears, I would cry day and night for my people who have been destroyed.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let them cry out in their houses, when you suddenly bring an enemy against them. Let it happen because they prepared a death trap for me. They hid traps for me to step in.

Lamentations 3:16

He pushed my teeth into rocky ground. He pushed me into the dirt.

Jonah 3:6

When the king of Nineveh heard about this, he left his throne, removed his robe, put on special clothes to show that he was sorry, and sat in ashes.

Job 15:21

Every noise scares him. His enemy will attack him when he thinks he is safe.

Isaiah 3:24

Those women now have sweet-smelling perfume, but it will get moldy and stink. Now they wear belts, but then they will have only ropes to wear. Now they have their hair fixed in fancy ways, but then their heads will be shaved—they will have no hair. Now they have party dresses, but then they will have only mourning clothes. They have beauty marks on their faces now, but then they will have another mark. It will be a mark burned into their skin to show that they are slaves.

Jeremiah 30:5

This is what the Lord said: “We hear people crying from fear. There is fear, not peace.