Jeremiah 25:32–38

³²The Lord who rules over all says,

“Look! Horrible trouble is spreading

from one nation to another.

A mighty storm is rising.

It is coming from a place

that is very far away.”

³³At that time those the Lord kills will be lying around everywhere. They will be found from one end of the earth to the other. No one will sob over them. Their dead bodies will not be gathered up or buried. Instead, they will be like trash lying there on the ground.

³⁴Sob and cry, you shepherds.

Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.

Your time to be killed has come.

You will fall and be broken to pieces like fine clay pots.

³⁵The shepherds won’t have any place to run to.

The leaders of the flock won’t be able to escape.

³⁶Listen to the cries of the shepherds.

Hear the sobs of the leaders of the flock.

The Lord is destroying their grasslands.

³⁷Their peaceful meadows will be completely destroyed

because of the Lord’s burning anger.

³⁸Like a lion he will leave his den.

The land of those leaders will become a desert.

That’s because the sword of the Lord brings great harm.

His anger will burn against them.