Jeremiah 25:34

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:10

At the turn of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and had him brought to Babylon, along with precious vessels from the house of the Lord. He made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. Zedekiah.

Psalm 2:9

With an iron rod you will shepherd them, like a potter’s vessel you will shatter them.”

Isaiah 10:12

But when the Lord has brought to an end all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the utterance of the king of Assyria’s proud heart, and the boastfulness of his haughty eyes.

Isaiah 2:16

Against all the ships of Tarshish and all stately vessels.

Isaiah 30:14

Crashing like a potter’s jar smashed beyond rescue, And among its fragments cannot be found a sherd to scoop fire from the hearth or dip water from the cistern.

Isaiah 33:1

Ah! You destroyer never destroyed, betrayer never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; when you have stopped betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord has a sword sated with blood, greasy with fat, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams’ kidneys; For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 34:7

Wild oxen shall be struck down with fatlings, and bullocks with bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil greasy with fat.

Jeremiah 18:22

May cries be heard from their homes, when suddenly you send plunderers against them. For they have dug a pit to capture me, they have hidden snares for my feet;

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a thing despised, to be broken, a vessel that no one wants? Why are he and his offspring cast out? why thrown into a land they do not know?

Jeremiah 23:1

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:12

but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt—oracle of the Lord. Their land I will turn into everlasting waste.

Jeremiah 25:23

Dedan and Tema and Buz, all the desert dwellers who shave their temples;

Jeremiah 25:36

Listen! Wailing from the shepherds, howling from the leaders of the flock! For the Lord lays waste their grazing place;

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time comes for him and his land; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought: How I would like to make you my children! So I gave you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage among the nations! You would call me, “My Father,” I thought, and you would never turn away from me.

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunk because he set himself over against the Lord; let Moab swim in his vomit and become a laughingstock.

Jeremiah 48:38

On all the rooftops of Moab and in all its squares there is mourning. I have shattered Moab like a pot that no one wants—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all the oxen, take them down to slaughter; Woe to them! their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing: “How suddenly the destroyer comes upon us!”

Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and gloat, daughter Edom, dwelling in the land of Uz, The cup will pass to you as well; you shall become drunk and strip yourself naked!

Ezekiel 34:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will judge between the fat and the lean.

Daniel 11:8

Even their gods, with their molten images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, he shall carry away as spoils of war into Egypt. For years he shall have nothing to do with the king of the north.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like a useless vessel.

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you tax the destitute and exact from them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them; Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine.

Zechariah 10:3

My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the Lord of hosts attends to the flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like a splendid horse in battle.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen! the wailing of shepherds, their glory has been destroyed. Listen! the roaring of young lions, the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. The Shepherd Narrative.

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.