Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Ye principal
The days of your
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Bible References
Wallow
Jeremiah 6:26
O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Jeremiah 48:26
Jehovah said: 'Make Moab drunk, because it has rebelled against me. Moab will roll in its own vomit and people will laugh.
Ezekiel 27:30
And they will make their voice heard over you and will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.
Ye principal
Ezekiel 34:17
As for you, my sheep, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: I will judge disputes between one sheep and another, between rams and male goats.
The days of your
Jeremiah 25:12
When the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes,' declares Jehovah. 'I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland.
Jeremiah 27:7
All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.
Jeremiah 51:20
He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.
Isaiah 10:12
It will happen when Jehovah has performed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will say: I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty appearance.
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to you who destroy for you have not been destroyed! Woe to you who betray for you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying you will be betrayed.
Lamentations 4:21
Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz. The cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.
Ye shall
Jeremiah 19:10
Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you.
Jeremiah 22:28
This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants. Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown out and cast into another land they have never heard of?
Psalm 2:9
You will rule them with an iron scepter. You will dash them to pieces like pottery!
Isaiah 30:14
It will break like pottery. It will be smashed. Nothing will be left of it. No piece will be big enough to carry live coals from a fireplace or to dip water from a reservoir.
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Jeremiah 25:36
The shepherds are crying and the leaders of the flock are mourning because Jehovah is stripping their pasture.