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34 Mourn, you shepherds, and cry.
    Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
    The time has come for you to be slaughtered.
    The time has come for you to be scattered,
        and you will break like fine pottery.
35 There will be no place for the shepherds to flee,
    no escape for the leaders of the flock.
36 The shepherds are crying
    and the leaders of the flock are mourning
        because Yahweh is stripping 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