Jeremiah 25:34
Howl, 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.
Jeremiah 25:34 in other translations
| BSB | Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery. |
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| WEB | Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery. |
| ASV | Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel. |
| YLT | Howl, ye shepherds, and cry, And roll yourselves, ye honourable of the flock, For full have been your days, For slaughtering, and for your scatterings, And ye have fallen as a desirable vessel. |
| DARBY | Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the dust, noble ones of the flock: for the days of your slaughter are accomplished, and I will disperse you; and ye shall fall like a precious vessel. |
| BBE | Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock. |
| Webster | Howl, 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. |
What does Jeremiah 25:34 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 25:30-38
The Lord has just ground of controversy with every nation and every person; and he will execute judgment on all the wicked. Who can avoid trembling when God speaks in displeasure? The days are fully come; the time fixed in the Divine counsels, which will make the nations wholly desolate. The tender and delicate shall share the common calamity. Even those who used to live in peace, and did nothing to provoke, shall…
Jeremiah 25:34 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 25:34
- Jeremiah 6:26
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.
- Jeremiah 27:7
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
- Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
- Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
- Ezekiel 34:16-17
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
- Isaiah 2:16
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
- 2 Chronicles 36:10
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 4:8-9
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us. And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
- Isaiah 30:14
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
- Psalms 2:9
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
23,36; 4:8,9; Eze 34:16; Jas 5:1,2
ye shepherds. Ye kings and chiefs of the people. wallow.
6:26; 48:26; Eze 27:30,31
ye principal.
Eze 34:17,20
the days of your. Heb. your days for.
12; 27:7; 51:20-26; Isa 10:12; 33:1; La 4:21
ye shall.
19:10-12; 22:28; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14
pleasant vessel. Heb. vessel of desire.
3:19; 2Ch 36:10; Isa 2:16; Da 11:8; Am 5:11; *margins
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Context
- Jeremiah 25:33
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.
- Jeremiah 25:34
Howl, 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.
- Jeremiah 25:35
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
Jeremiah 25:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aullad, pastores, y clamad; y revolcaos en el polvo, mayorales del rebaño; porque cumplidos son vuestros días para ser vosotros degollados y esparcidos, y caeréis como vaso de codicia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous, pasteurs, hurlez et criez; et vous, les nobles du troupeau, roulez-vous par terre, car vos jours sont accomplis, pour vous tuer; et je vous disperserai, et vous tomberez comme un vase d’agrément. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Heulet, ihr Hirten, und schreiet! und wälzet euch in der Asche, ihr Herrlichen der Herde! denn eure Tage sind erfüllt, um geschlachtet zu werden; und ich zerstreue euch, daß ihr hinfallen werdet wie ein kostbares Gefäß. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ululate, pastores, et clamate, et aspergite vos cinere, optimates gregis: quia completi sunt dies vestri ut interficiamini, et dissipationes vestræ: et cadetis quasi vasa pretiosa. |