29. For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it!’
30. “Then, Jeremiah, make the following prophecy against them: ‘Like a lion about to attack, the Lord will roar from the heights of heaven;from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly.He will roar mightily against his land.He will shout in triumph like those stomping juice from the grapesagainst all those who live on the earth.
31. The sounds of battle will resound to the ends of the earth.For the Lord will bring charges against the nations.He will pass judgment on all humankindand will hand the wicked over to be killed in war.’The Lord so affirms it!
32. The Lord who rules over all says,‘Disaster will soon come on one nation after another.A mighty storm of military destruction is rising upfrom the distant parts of the earth.’
33. Those who have been killed by the Lord at that time will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried. Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.
34. 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.
35. The leaders will not be able to run away and hide.The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.
36. Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders.Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks.They are wailing because the Lordis about to destroy their lands.
37. Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid wasteby the fierce anger of the Lord.
38. The Lord is like a lion who has left his lair.So their lands will certainly be laid wasteby the warfare of the oppressive nationand by the fierce anger of the Lord.”