Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams. New Living Translation Weep and moan, you evil shepherds! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! The time of your slaughter has arrived; you will fall and shatter like a fragile vase. English Standard Version “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like a choice vessel. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible 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. New King James Version “Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel. New American Standard Bible “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a precious vessel. NASB 1995 “Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a choice vessel. NASB 1977 “Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you shall fall like a choice vessel. Legacy Standard Bible Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; And roll yourselves in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your scatterings are being fulfilled, And you will fall like a desirable vessel. Amplified Bible “Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And roll in ashes, you masters of the flock. For the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have come in full, And you will fall and be broken into pieces like a choice vessel. Christian Standard Bible Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. Because the days of your slaughter have come, you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase. Holman Christian Standard Bible Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. Because the days of your slaughter have come, you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase. American Standard Version 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. Contemporary English Version The LORD's people are his flock, and you leaders were the shepherds. But now it's your turn to be butchered like sheep. You'll shatter like fine pottery dropped on the floor. So roll on the ground, crying and mourning. English Revised Version Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. GOD'S WORD® Translation Mourn, you shepherds, and cry. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. The time has come for you to be slaughtered. The time has come for you to be scattered, and you will break like fine pottery. Good News Translation Cry, you leaders, you shepherds of my people, cry out loud! Mourn and roll in the dust. The time has come for you to be slaughtered, and you will be butchered like rams. International Standard Version "Scream, you shepherds! Cry out! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! Indeed, the time for your slaughter and your dispersion has arrived, and you will break like a choice vessel. Majority Standard Bible 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. NET Bible Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery. New Heart English Bible Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in dust, you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionHowl, you shepherds, and cry, "" And roll yourselves, you majestic of the flock, "" For your days have been full "" For slaughtering, and [for] your scatterings, "" And you have fallen as a desirable vessel. Young's Literal Translation 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. Smith's Literal Translation Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves, ye chiefs of the flocks; for your days for slaughter and your dispersions were filled up, and ye fell as a vessel of desire. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHowl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle yourselves with ashes, ye leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersion are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious vessels. Catholic Public Domain Version Wail, O shepherds, and cry out! And sprinkle yourselves with ashes, O nobles of the flock! For the days have been completed that lead to your slaughter and your destruction. And you will fall like precious vessels. New American Bible Howl, you shepherds, and wail! roll on the ground, leaders of the flock! The time for your slaughter has come; like choice rams you shall fall. New Revised Standard Version Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter have come—and your dispersions, and you shall fall like a choice vessel. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHowl, you shepherds, and cry; wallow in the ashes, you who have great flocks; for the days of your slaughter are at hand, and you shall be broken, and fall like choice vessels. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Wail shepherds, and cry out and wallow in the dust, strong ones of the sheep, because your days for slaughter are fulfilled, and you shall be broken, and you shall fall like desirable vessels OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; And wallow yourselves in the dust, ye leaders of the flock; For the days of your slaughter are fully come, And I will break you in pieces, And ye shall fall like a precious vessel. Brenton Septuagint Translation Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Cry of the Shepherds34Wail, 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. 35Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.… Cross References Ezekiel 34:2-10 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? / You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock. / You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty. ... Zechariah 11:3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. Isaiah 24:2 people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. Lamentations 2:11 My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Amos 8:8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt. Hosea 4:3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear. Isaiah 13:6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty. Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. Isaiah 34:7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat. Ezekiel 21:12 Cry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh. Matthew 9:36 When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. John 10:11-13 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. / The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock. / The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep. Luke 19:41-44 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ... Revelation 18:11 And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— 1 Peter 5:2-4 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed, but out of eagerness; / not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. / And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. Treasury of Scripture Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel. Howl. Jeremiah 25:23,36 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners, … 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… Ezekiel 34:16 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. ye shepherds. 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 48:26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. Ezekiel 27:30,31 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: … ye principal. Ezekiel 34:17,20 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… the days of your. Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 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. Jeremiah 51:20-26 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; … ye shall. Jeremiah 19:10-12 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, … Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? Psalm 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. pleasant vessel. Jeremiah 3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. Jump to Previous Accomplished Ashes Break Chiefs Choice Cries Cry Destruction Directions Dispersion Dust Fall Flock Fully Goodly Grief Help Howl Keepers Leaders Males Pieces Pleasant Precious Principal Rams Roll Shattered Sheep Shepherds Slaughter Slaughtered Time Vessel Wail Wallow Weep YourselvesJump to Next Accomplished Ashes Break Chiefs Choice Cries Cry Destruction Directions Dispersion Dust Fall Flock Fully Goodly Grief Help Howl Keepers Leaders Males Pieces Pleasant Precious Principal Rams Roll Shattered Sheep Shepherds Slaughter Slaughtered Time Vessel Wail Wallow Weep YourselvesJeremiah 25 1. Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,8. foretells the seventy years' captivity; 12. and after that, the destruction of Babylon. 15. Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all nations. 34. The howling of the shepherds. Wail, you shepherds The term "wail" in Hebrew is "הֵילִילוּ" (heililu), which conveys a deep, mournful cry often associated with lamentation and despair. In the context of ancient Israel, shepherds were not only literal caretakers of sheep but also symbolic leaders of the people. The call for shepherds to wail indicates a profound judgment upon those who were responsible for guiding and protecting the nation. This reflects a divine indictment against leaders who have failed in their duties, emphasizing the seriousness of their impending judgment. and cry out roll in the dust O leaders of the flock For the days of your slaughter have come you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery Wallow yourselves in the ashes.--The words in italics have probably been added to bring the passage into conformity with Jeremiah 6:26, but they are not needed, and the interpretation is unauthorised. Better, therefore, roll on the ground. By some interpreters the word is rendered "sprinkle yourselves." The "principal of the flock" are the "strong ones," i.e., the best and fattest of the rams, denoting figuratively the princes and captains of the people. And of your dispersions.--The Hebrew text seems faulty, and a slight alteration, now generally accepted, gives, and I will scatter you. Like a pleasant vessel.--The sudden change of metaphor is somewhat startling, as judged by our rules of rhetoric; but the poets and prophets of Israel wrote without the fear of criticism, and used each image that presented itself, if it was fit for its immediate purpose, without caring much for continuity. The thought of the scattered flock suggested the idea of a dispersion or breaking-up of another kind, even that of the "pleasant vessel" (literally, the vessel of desire, i.e., a vase made as for kingly and honourable uses), falling with a crash and shivered into fragments, which Jeremiah had presented to the people in his acted parable and spoken words in Jeremiah 19:10-11, and in Jeremiah 22:28. The LXX. translators give like the chosen rams, as if anxious to avoid the mixed metaphor, and venturing on a conjectural emendation of the text. . . . Verse 34. - Wallow yourselves in the ashes. Supply rather, in the dust (comp. Micah 1:10), as more suitable to the figure (see on Jeremiah 6:26). The shepherds, and the principal (or, noble ones) of the flock, are, of course, merely different forms of expression for the rulers. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; rather, your days for being slaughtered are fulfilled; and I will scatter you (or, dash you in pieces). This is the reading of an old and valuable manuscript at St. Petersburg, and is partly favored by the pointing; it is adopted by most modern critics, the form in the text being ungrammatical. Pleasant; or, precious (comp. Daniel 11:8, Authorized Version). Compare the figure in Jeremiah 22:28.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Wail,הֵילִ֨ילוּ (hê·lî·lū) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 3213: To howl, make a howling you shepherds, הָרֹעִ֜ים (hā·rō·‘îm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with and cry out; וְזַעֲק֗וּ (wə·za·‘ă·qū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 2199: To shriek, to announce, convene publicly roll in the dust, וְהִֽתְפַּלְּשׁוּ֙ (wə·hiṯ·pal·lə·šū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 6428: (act of mourning) perhaps to roll in you leaders אַדִּירֵ֣י (’ad·dî·rê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 117: Wide, large, powerful of the flock. הַצֹּ֔אן (haṣ·ṣōn) Article | Noun - common singular Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock For כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction the days יְמֵיכֶ֖ם (yə·mê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 3117: A day of your slaughter לִטְב֑וֹחַ (liṭ·ḇō·w·aḥ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 2873: To slaughter, butcher, slay have come; מָלְא֥וּ (mā·lə·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of you will fall וּנְפַלְתֶּ֖ם (ū·nə·p̄al·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 5307: To fall, lie and be shattered וּתְפוֹצ֣וֹתִיכֶ֔ם (ū·ṯə·p̄ō·w·ṣō·w·ṯî·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 8600: Dispersion -- a dispersal like fine חֶמְדָּֽה׃ (ḥem·dāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2532: Desire, delight pottery. כִּכְלִ֥י (kiḵ·lî) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus Links Jeremiah 25:34 NIVJeremiah 25:34 NLT Jeremiah 25:34 ESV Jeremiah 25:34 NASB Jeremiah 25:34 KJV Jeremiah 25:34 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 25:34 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 25:34 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 25:34 French Bible Jeremiah 25:34 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 25:34 Wail you shepherds and cry (Jer.) |
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