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34 “Scream, you shepherds! Cry out!
    Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock!
Indeed, the time for your slaughter
    and your dispersion has arrived,
        and you will break like a choice vessel.
35 Flight will be impossible[a] for the shepherds,
    as will be escape for the leaders of the flock.
36 A sound—it’s the cry of the shepherds
    and the scream of the leaders of the flock—
        because the Lord is destroying their pastures.

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  1. Jeremiah 25:35 Lit. will perish

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