Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an
Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punis
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo
In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from
So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I wil
Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the na
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold. Fo
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidne
Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destro
You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in th
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.
They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for t
“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will al
So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you w
All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great k
Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and
So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of As