Jeremiah 25 · Verse 35

Jeremiah 25:35

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
Jeremiah 25:35, King James Version

Jeremiah 25:35 in other translations

BSBFlight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.
WEBThe shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.
ASVAnd the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
YLTAnd perished hath refuge from the shepherds, And escape from the honourable of the flock.
DARBYAnd refuge shall perish from the shepherds, and escape from the noble ones of the flock.
BBEThere will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.
WebsterAnd the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

What does Jeremiah 25:35 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
35. Literally, "Flight shall fail the shepherds ... escaping (shall fail) the principal," &c. (Am 2:14). The leaders will be the first objects for slaughter; escape by flight will be out of their power.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

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…

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Jeremiah 25:35 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאָבַ֥דve.'a.Vadand it will be lostH6
מָנ֖וֹסma.Nosa place of escapeH4498
מִן\־min-fromH4480
הָֽרֹעִ֑יםha.ro.'Imthe shepherdsH7462
וּפְלֵיטָ֖הu.fe.lei.Tahand escapeH6413
מֵאַדִּירֵ֥יme.'a.di.Reifrom [the] noble [ones] ofH117
הַצֹּֽאן\׃ha.Tzonthe flockH6629

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Cross references for Jeremiah 25:35

  • Job 11:20

    But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

  • Amos 2:14

    Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

  • Jeremiah 38:18

    But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

  • Jeremiah 52:24-27

    And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. So Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

  • Jeremiah 38:23

    So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

  • Jeremiah 52:8-11

    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

  • Jeremiah 34:3

    And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

  • Jeremiah 48:44

    He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

  • Isaiah 24:21-23

    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

  • Amos 9:1-3

    I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

  • Revelation 6:14-17

    And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

  • Daniel 5:30

    In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the shepherds, etc. Heb. flight shall perish from theshepherds, and escaping from, etc.
32:4; 34:3; 38:18,23; Job 11:20; Isa 2:12-22; 24:21-23
Eze 17:15,18; Da 5:30; Am 2:14; 9:1; Re 6:14-17; 19:19-21
nor.
48:44; 52:8-11,24-27; Am 9:1-3

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Context

  • 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 25:36

    A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.

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Jeremiah 25:35 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y acabaráse la huída de los pastores, y el escape de los mayorales del rebaño.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et tout refuge a péri pour les pasteurs, et la délivrance, pour les nobles du troupeau.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Zuflucht ist den Hirten verloren, und das Entrinnen den Herrlichen der Herde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et peribit fuga a pastoribus, et salvatio ab optimatibus gregis.