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Coming in the wake of that fateful storm, the death and destruction are unimaginable.

33 Those killed by the Eternal in that day will blanket the earth from one end to the other. So great is their number that no one will gather the dead and bury them. No one will be there to mourn them. They will lie like dung upon the face of the earth.

34     Cry out, you shepherds, and weep;
        wallow in the dust—roll in ashes, you leaders of the flock.
    For the time has come for you to be slaughtered and scattered abroad.
        You will fall and shatter like a treasured vessel.
35     As for the shepherds, they will have nowhere to hide;
        as for the leaders, they will not escape My punishment.

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33 At that time those slain(A) by the Lord will be everywhere—from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered(B) up or buried,(C) but will be like dung lying on the ground.

34 Weep and wail, you shepherds;(D)
    roll(E) in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
For your time to be slaughtered(F) has come;
    you will fall like the best of the rams.[a](G)
35 The shepherds will have nowhere to flee,
    the leaders of the flock no place to escape.(H)

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Footnotes

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