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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 25:34 - 25:34
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shepherds - princes (Jer 22:22). Here he returns to the Jews and their rulers, using the same image as in Jer 25:30, “pasture” (see on Jer 25:30).
wallow yourselves - Cover yourselves as thickly with ashes, in token of sorrow, as one who rolls in them (Jer 6:26; Eze 27:30) [Maurer].
principal - leaders. The Septuagint translates “rams,” carrying out the image (compare Isa 14:9, Margin; Zec 10:3).
days of your slaughter ... of ... dispersions - rather, “your days for slaughter (that is, the time of your being slain), and your dispersions (not ‘of your dispersions’), are accomplished (are come).”
pleasant vessel - Ye were once a precious vessel, but ye shall fall, and so be a broken vessel (see on Jer 22:28). “Your past excellency shall not render you safe now. I will turn to your ignominy whatever glory I conferred on you” [Calvin].