Jeremiah 25:35

Then shall place of refuge vanish from the shepherds, And escape from the illustrious of the flock.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

In Context

34Howl ye shepherds and make outcry, And roll in the dust ye illustrious of the flock, Because your days for being slaughtered, are fulfilled,—Therefore will I break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a precious vessel!

36The voice of the outcry of the shepherds! Yea the howling of the illustrious of the flock!—Because Yahweh is laying waste the grounds where they fed.

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Cross References

Isaiah 2:12For, a day of Yahweh of hosts, [shall be] —Upon every one who is high and lofty,—And upon every one who is lifted up, And he shall be brought low;

Jeremiah 32:4and, Zedekiah king of Judah! shall not be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans,—for he shall be wholly given up, into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak—the mouth of the one to the mouth of the other, and the eyes of the one into the eyes of the other, shall look;

Jeremiah 37:17then sent King Zedekiah—and fetched him, and the king asked him, in his own house secretly, and said,—Is there a word from Yahweh? And Jeremiah said,—There is, for (said he), Into the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be delivered!

Jeremiah 38:23Yea thou shalt behold all thy wives and thy children brought forth unto the Chaldeans, and thou, shalt not escape out of their hand,—but by the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be taken, and, this city, shall be burned with fire.

Jeremiah 52:8And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah, in the Waste Plains of Jericho,—and, all his force, was scattered from him.

Ezekiel 17:15But he hath rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt, that there should be given to him horses, and much people. Shall he thrive? Shall he escape that doeth these things? Shall he break a covenant and escape?

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 25:31-38

General Desolation; Jeremiah's Faithful Preaching. ( b. c. 607.) 30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that… Read the whole commentary →

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