Focused Passage

Jeremiah 25:34-38

Seventy Years for Babylon and the Cup of the LORD's Wrath

The chapter moves from Jeremiah's retrospective indictment of Judah's refusal to listen, to the seventy-year Babylonian judgment, to Babylon's later punishment, and finally to the cup of wrath poured out on Judah and all nations.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

34 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.

35 Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.

36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

37 The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORD’s burning anger.

38 He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

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References and Original Words

Verse 34

Cross-references

Jeremiah 23:1 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 6:26 Classic cross-references Zechariah 10:3 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 18:22 Classic cross-references James 5:5 Classic cross-references

Original words

Wail הֵילִ֨ילוּ H3213 Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural you shepherds הָרֹעִ֜ים H7462 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural and cry out וְזַעֲק֗וּ H2199 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural roll in the dust וְהִֽתְפַּלְּשׁוּ֙ H6428 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural you leaders אַדִּירֵ֣י H117 Noun - masculine plural construct of the flock הַצֹּ֔אן H6629 Article | Noun - common singular For כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction the days יְמֵיכֶ֖ם H3117 Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural of your slaughter לִטְב֑וֹחַ H2873 Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct have come מָלְא֥וּ H4390 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural you will fall וּנְפַלְתֶּ֖ם H5307 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural and be shattered וּתְפוֹצ֣וֹתִיכֶ֔ם H8600 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural like fine חֶמְדָּֽה׃ H2532 Noun - feminine singular pottery כִּכְלִ֥י H3627 Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct

BSB notes

Hebrew; LXX you will fall like the best of the rams

Verse 35

Cross-references

Job 11:20 Classic cross-references Amos 2:14 Classic cross-references

Original words

Flight מָנ֖וֹס H4498 Noun - masculine singular will evade וְאָבַ֥ד H6 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular . . . מִן־ H4480 Preposition the shepherds הָֽרֹעִ֑ים H7462 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural and escape [will elude] וּפְלֵיטָ֖ה H6413 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular the leaders מֵאַדִּירֵ֥י H117 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct of the flock הַצֹּֽאן׃ H6629 Article | Noun - common singular

Verse 36

Cross-references

Jeremiah 4:8 Classic cross-references Zephaniah 1:14 Classic cross-references

Original words

Hear the ק֚וֹל H6963 Noun - masculine singular cry צַעֲקַ֣ת H6818 Noun - feminine singular construct of the shepherds הָֽרֹעִ֔ים H7462 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural the wailing וִֽילְלַ֖ת H3215 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct of the leaders אַדִּירֵ֣י H117 Noun - masculine plural construct of the flock הַצֹּ֑אן H6629 Article | Noun - common singular for כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction the LORD יְהוָ֖ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker is destroying שֹׁדֵ֥ד H7703 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular their pasture מַרְעִיתָֽם׃ H4830 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural

Verse 37

Cross-references

Isaiah 27:10 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 12:13 Classic cross-references

Original words

The peaceful הַשָּׁל֑וֹם H7965 Article | Noun - masculine singular meadows נְא֣וֹת H4999 Noun - feminine plural construct have been silenced וְנָדַ֖מּוּ H1826 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural because of מִפְּנֵ֖י H6440 Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct the LORD’s יְהוָֽה׃ H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular burning anger חֲר֥וֹן H2740 Noun - masculine singular construct . . . אַף־ H639 Noun - masculine singular construct

Verse 38

Cross-references

Jeremiah 4:7 Classic cross-references Hosea 13:7 Classic cross-references Hosea 5:14 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 44:22 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 5:6 Classic cross-references

Original words

He has left עָזַ֥ב H5800 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular His den סֻכּ֑וֹ H5520 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular like a lion כַּכְּפִ֖יר H3715 Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular for כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction their land אַרְצָם֙ H776 Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural has been made הָיְתָ֤ה H1961 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular a desolation לְשַׁמָּ֔ה H8047 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular by מִפְּנֵי֙ H6440 Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct the sword חֲר֣וֹן H2740 Noun - masculine singular construct of the oppressor הַיּוֹנָ֔ה H3238 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular and because וּמִפְּנֵ֖י H6440 Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct of the fierce חֲר֥וֹן H2740 Noun - masculine singular construct anger [of the LORD] אַפּֽוֹ׃פ H639 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular

BSB notes

Some Hebrew manuscripts and LXX (see also Jeremiah 46:16 and Jeremiah 50:16); most Hebrew manuscripts anger

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