Isaiæ 25:34

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Ululate, pastores, et clamate,
et aspergite vos cinere, optimates gregis:
quia completi sunt dies vestri ut interficiamini,
et dissipationes vestræ:
et cadetis quasi vasa pretiosa.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ululate, pastores, et clamate : et aspergite vos cinere, optimates gregis, quia completi sunt dies vestri, ut interficiamini, et dissipationes vestr� : et cadetis quasi vasa pretiosa.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ululate, pastores, et clamate; et volutamini vos in pulvere, optimates gregis, quia completi sunt dies vestri ad occisionem et ad dispersionem vestram, et cadetis quasi vasa pretiosa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Howl: Jeremiah 25:23, Jeremiah 25:36, Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 4:9, Ezekiel 34:16, James 5:1, James 5:2

ye shepherds: Ye kings and chiefs of the people

wallow: Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 48:26, Ezekiel 27:30, Ezekiel 27:31

ye principal: Ezekiel 34:17, Ezekiel 34:20

the days of your: Heb. your days for, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 51:20-26, Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 33:1, Lamentations 4:21

ye shall: Jeremiah 19:10-12, Jeremiah 22:28, Psalms 2:9, Isaiah 30:14

pleasant vessel: Heb. vessel of desire, Jeremiah 3:19, 2 Chronicles 36:10, Isaiah 2:16, Daniel 11:8, Amos 5:11, *marg.

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 5:12 - the cry 2 Samuel 9:7 - eat bread 1 Kings 20:6 - pleasant Isaiah 13:6 - Howl ye Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 23:1 - pastors Jeremiah 48:12 - empty Jeremiah 48:38 - broken Ezekiel 21:12 - howl Ezekiel 26:12 - thy pleasant houses Nahum 2:9 - pleasant furniture Zephaniah 1:11 - Howl Zechariah 11:3 - a voice

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry,.... The Targum is,

"howl, ye kings, and cry;''

and the rulers and governors of the nations before threatened with destruction are meant; who are here called upon to lamentation and mourning for the ruin and loss of their kingdoms; though Calvin thinks that this is an apostrophe to the Jewish nation, and the rulers of it. It is no uncommon thing in Scripture to call kings and civil magistrates shepherds; see Jeremiah 23:1;

and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye principal of the flock; or "roll yourselves [in dust]", as a token of mourning; as being in the utmost distress, and incapable of helping themselves, and redressing the grievances of their people; and therefore lie down and tumble about as in the greatest anxiety and trouble, the Targum is,

"cover your heads with ashes, ye mighty of the people;''

meaning those who were in the highest posts of honour and profit; the chief as to authority and power, riches and wealth;

for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; the time is come when they who were the fat of the flock, and were nourished up for slaughter, should be slain. The allusion to shepherds and sheep is still kept up; and such who should escape that, should be scattered up and down the world, as a flock of sheep is by the wolf, or any other beast of prey, when some are seized and devoured, and others dispersed; and this was not the case of the Jews only, but of other nations in their turn;

and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel; a vessel of worth and value, and so desirable; as vessels of glass, of gems, or of earth, as of Venice glass, of alabaster, of China; which when they fall and are broken, become useless, and are irreparable; signifying hereby, that their desirableness and excellency would not secure them from destruction, and that their ruin would be irretrievable.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Principal of the flock - i. e., noble ones.

Wallow yourselves in the ashes - Rather, roll yourselves on the ground.

For ... - Read; “for your days for being slaughtered are accomplished, and I will scatter you” (or, (dash you in pieces).

Fall like a pleasant vessel - The comparison suggests the idea of change from a thing of value into worthless fragments.

Jeremiah 25:36

Hath spoiled - Or, spoileth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 25:34. Howl, ye shepherds — Ye kings and chiefs of the people.

Ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. — As a fall will break and utterly ruin a precious vessel of crystal, agate, &c., so your overthrow will be to you irreparable ruin.