“ Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

牧人哪，你们当哀号，呼喊；群众的头目啊，你们要滚在灰中；因为你们被杀戮分散的日子足足来到。你们要跌碎，好像美器打碎一样。

“牧人哪，你们当哀号，呼喊；羊群的领导者啊，你们要在灰中翻滚；因为你们被宰杀、被分散的日子已经来到。你们要仆倒，好像珍贵的器皿打碎一样。

“牧人哪，你们当哀号，呼喊；羊群的领导者啊，你们要在灰中翻滚；因为你们被宰杀、被分散的日子已经来到。你们要仆倒，好像珍贵的器皿打碎一样。

你们这群牧人啊，要悲哀哭泣！你们这群百姓的首领啊，要在灰尘中伤心地打滚！因为你们被宰杀、驱散的时候到了，你们将像精美的器皿一样被摔得粉碎。

牧人啊，你们要哀号，呼叫！羊群的领袖啊，你们要在灰尘中打滚！因为你们被宰杀的日子已经到了；我要粉碎你们，你们要跌倒，像珍贵的器皿跌碎一样。

牧人哪，你們當哀號，呼喊；羣眾的頭目啊，你們要滾在灰中；因為你們被殺戮分散的日子足足來到。你們要跌碎，好像美器打碎一樣。

「牧人哪，你們當哀號，呼喊；羊羣的領導者啊，你們要在灰中翻滾；因為你們被宰殺、被分散的日子已經來到。你們要仆倒，好像珍貴的器皿打碎一樣。

「牧人哪，你們當哀號，呼喊；羊羣的領導者啊，你們要在灰中翻滾；因為你們被宰殺、被分散的日子已經來到。你們要仆倒，好像珍貴的器皿打碎一樣。

你們這群牧人啊，要悲哀哭泣！你們這群百姓的首領啊，要在灰塵中傷心地打滾！因為你們被宰殺、驅散的時候到了，你們將像精美的器皿一樣被摔得粉碎。

牧人啊，你們要哀號，呼叫！羊群的領袖啊，你們要在灰塵中打滾！因為你們被宰殺的日子已經到了；我要粉碎你們，你們要跌倒，像珍貴的器皿跌碎一樣。

牧民者啊，哀號哦，哀呼哦！羊羣中的貴顯者啊，在灰塵中打滾哦！因為你們被屠宰被分散的日子足足地來到了；你們必仆倒、像肥美的公羊一樣。

牧者歟、爾其號咷哭泣、羣羊之長歟、爾其輾轉於灰塵、蓋爾被戮之日、離散之期已屆、爾必隕越、有如珍器墮毀、

牧守群羊者、當號呼哭泣、坐於塗炭、蓋爾群離散、彼殺之日已屆、爾必喪亡、與珍器之毀、無以異也、

惟爾牧人當號咷、導群羊者當哀哭、輾轉於灰塵、因爾群被殺之時已至、見散之日已屆、爾必喪亡、與珍器之毀無以異、

Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams.

Weep and cry, you shepherds. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. Your time to be killed has come. You will fall like the best of the rams.

Weep and moan, you evil shepherds! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! The time of your slaughter has arrived; you will fall and shatter like a fragile vase.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. Because the days of your slaughter have come, you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a precious vessel.

“ Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel.

Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. Because the days of your slaughter have come, you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.

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.

Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery.

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

“ Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.

“‘ I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

“ You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.“ I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.“ Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the Lord.

and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”“ In that day, declares the Lord, courage shall fail both king and officials. The priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.”

Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know?

A voice— the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the Lord is laying waste their pasture,

Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.“ As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.

against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.

“ Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,and shall say to them,‘ Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

“ Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.