Jeremiah 25:30–38

³⁰And you yourself shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them:

‘Yahweh will roar from on high,

and from his holy dwelling place^c he will give his voice.

He will roar mightily against his settlement,

a jubilant shout like those who tread grapes,

he will answer against all the inhabitants of the earth.

³¹The rage of battle will resound to the end of the earth,

for there is a lawsuit of Yahweh against the nations.

He is entering into judgment with all wicked flesh,

he will give them to the sword,’ declares^d Yahweh.”

³²Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“Look, disaster is going out from nation to nation,

and a great tempest is stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth.

³³And the slain ones of Yahweh will be on that day

from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth,

and they will not be mourned,

and they will not be gathered,

and they will not be buried.

They will become like dung on the surface^e of the ground.

³⁴Wail, you shepherds, and cry out.

And roll about in mourning in the dust, O leaders^f of the flock.

For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived,

and you will fall like a vessel of desire.

³⁵And flight will perish from the shepherds,

and escape from the leaders^g of the flock.

³⁶A sound, the cry of distress of the shepherds

and the wailing of the leaders^h of the flock,

for Yahweh is despoiling their pasture.

³⁷And the peaceful settlementsⁱ are devastated

because of the burning anger of Yahweh.^j

³⁸He has left his den like a lion,

for their land has become a horror,

because of the anger of the oppressors,

and because of his burning anger.”^k