Jeremiah 25:30–38

³⁰“You, Jeremiah, must proclaim everything I have said. You must tell these people,

‘The Lord will roar from heaven

and thunder from the heights of heaven.

He will roar against his people;

he will shout like a man treading grapes.

Everyone on earth will hear him,

³¹and the sound will echo to the ends of the earth.

The Lord has a case against the nations.

He will bring all people to trial

and put the wicked to death.

The Lord has spoken.’ ”

³²The Lord Almighty says that disaster is coming on one nation after another, and a great storm is gathering at the far ends of the earth. ³³On that day the bodies of those whom the Lord has killed will lie scattered from one end of the earth to the other. No one will mourn for them, and they will not be taken away and buried. They will lie on the ground like piles of manure.

³⁴Cry, you leaders, you shepherds of my people, cry out loud! Mourn and roll in the dust. The time has come for you to be slaughtered,^c and you will be butchered like rams.^{d 35}There will be no way for you to escape. ^36–37You moan and cry out in distress because the Lord in his anger has destroyed your nation and left your peaceful country in ruins. ³⁸The Lord has abandoned his people^e like a lion that leaves its cave. The horrors of war and the Lord’s fierce anger have turned the country into a desert.