Jeremiah 25:34

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:10

In the spring of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had Jehoiachin arrested and taken to Babylon, along with more of the valuable items in the temple. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Zedekiah king of Judah.

Psalm 2:9

You will smash them with an iron rod and shatter them like dishes of clay.”

Isaiah 10:12

The Lord will do what he has planned against Jerusalem and Mount Zion. Then he will punish the proud and boastful king of Assyria,

Isaiah 2:16

all the seagoing ships, and every beautiful boat.

Isaiah 30:14

and shatter like a crushed bowl. There's not a piece left big enough to carry hot coals or to scoop up water.”

Isaiah 33:1

You defeated my people. Now you're in for trouble! You've never been destroyed, but you will be destroyed; you've never been betrayed, but you will be betrayed. When you have finished destroying and betraying, you will be destroyed and betrayed in return.

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the LORD is covered with blood from lambs and goats, together with fat from kidneys of rams. This is because the LORD will slaughter many people and make a sacrifice of them in the city of Bozrah and everywhere else in Edom.

Isaiah 34:7

Edom's leaders are wild oxen. They are powerful bulls, but they will die with the others. Their country will be soaked with their blood, and its soil made fertile with their fat.

Jeremiah 18:22

These people have dug pits and set traps for me, LORD. Make them scream in fear when you send enemy troops to attack their homes.

Jeremiah 22:28

Jehoiachin, you are unwanted like a broken clay pot. So you and your children will be thrown into a country you know nothing about.

Jeremiah 23:1

You leaders of my people are like shepherds that kill and scatter the sheep.

Jeremiah 25:12

When that time is up, I will punish the king of Babylonia and his people for everything they have done wrong, and I will turn that country into a wasteland for ever.

Jeremiah 25:23

After this, I went to the kings of Dedan, Tema, Buz, the tribes of the Arabian Desert,

Jeremiah 25:36

Listen to the cries of the shepherds, as the LORD's burning anger turns peaceful meadows into barren deserts. The LORD has abandoned his people like a lion leaving its den.

Jeremiah 3:19

I have always wanted to treat you as my children and give you the best land, the most beautiful on earth. I wanted you to call me “Father” and not turn from me.

Jeremiah 48:26

People of Moab, you claim to be stronger than I am. Now I will tell other nations to make you drunk and to laugh while you collapse in your own vomit.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill the soldiers of Babylonia, because the time has come for them to be punished.

Jeremiah 6:26

and attacks without warning. So mourn, my people, as though your only child had died. Wear clothes made of sackcloth and roll in the ash heap.”

Lamentations 4:21

You people of Edom can celebrate now! But your time will come to suffer and stagger around naked.

Ezekiel 34:20

So I, the LORD God, will separate you strong sheep from the weak.

Daniel 11:8

Then he will carry their idols to Egypt, together with their precious treasures of silver and gold, but it will be a long time before he attacks the northern kingdom again. Some years later

Hosea 8:8

Israel, you are ruined, and now the nations consider you worthless.

Amos 5:11

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.

Zechariah 10:3

I, the LORD All-Powerful, am fiercely angry with you leaders, and I will punish you. I care for my people, the nation of Judah, and I will change this flock of sheep into charging war horses.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen! Shepherds are crying. Their glorious pastures have been ruined. Listen! Lions are roaring. The forests of the Jordan Valley are no more to be found.

James 5:5

While here on earth, you have thought only of filling your own stomachs and having a good time. But now you are like fat cattle on their way to be butchered.