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Jer 25:34 — Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Howl		Jer 25:23,36; Jer 4:8,9; Eze 34:16; Jam 5:1,2
ye shepherds		Ye kings and chiefs of the people
wallow		Jer 6:26; Jer 48:26; Eze 27:30,31
ye principal		Eze 34:17,20
the days of your		Heb. your days for. Jer 25:12; Jer 27:7; Jer 51:20-26; Isa 10:12; Isa 33:1; Lam 4:21
ye shall		Jer 19:10-12; Jer 22:28; Psa 2:9; Isa 30:14
pleasant vessel		Heb. vessel of desire. Jer 3:19; 2Ch 36:10; Isa 2:16; Dan 11:8; Amo 5:11; *margins

Correlating Passages

Howl

	Jer 25:23	Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all [that are] in the utmost corners,
	Jer 25:36	A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, [shall be heard]: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
	Jer 4:8	For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
	Jer 4:9	And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
	Eze 34:16	I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
	Jam 5:1	Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
	Jam 5:2	Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

wallow

	Jer 6:26	O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
	Jer 48:26	Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
	Eze 27:30	And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
	Eze 27:31	And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart [and] bitter wailing.

ye principal

	Eze 34:17	And [as for] you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
	Eze 34:20	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

the days of your

	Jer 25:12	And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
	Jer 27:7	And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
	Jer 51:20	Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
	Jer 51:21	And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
	Jer 51:22	With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
	Jer 51:23	I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
	Jer 51:24	And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
	Jer 51:25	Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
	Jer 51:26	And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
	Isa 10:12	Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
	Isa 33:1	Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
	Lam 4:21	Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

ye shall

	Jer 19:10	Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
	Jer 19:11	And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury.
	Jer 19:12	Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet:
	Jer 22:28	[Is] this man Coniah a despised broken idol? [is he] a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
	Psa 2:9	Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
	Isa 30:14	And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.

pleasant vessel

	Jer 3:19	But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
	2Ch 36:10	And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
	Isa 2:16	And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
	Dan 11:8	And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, [and] with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue [more] years than the king of the north.
	Amo 5:11	Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 25:34," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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