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34 Wail, you shepherds, and weep aloud;
    roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
The time for you to be slaughtered has arrived;
    you will fall and be shattered
    like a valuable vase.
35 The shepherds have no place to seek refuge;
    the leaders of the flock have no way of escape.
36 Listen to the cry of the shepherds
    and the wails from the lords of the flock.
For the Lord has ravaged their pasture,

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34 Weep and wail, you shepherds;(A)
    roll(B) in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
For your time to be slaughtered(C) has come;
    you will fall like the best of the rams.[a](D)
35 The shepherds will have nowhere to flee,
    the leaders of the flock no place to escape.(E)
36 Hear the cry(F) of the shepherds,(G)
    the wailing of the leaders of the flock,
    for the Lord is destroying their pasture.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:34 Septuagint; Hebrew fall and be shattered like fine pottery