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Jeremiah 22:22
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah pronounces this judgment to the Judahite monarchy and people during a period of entrenched rebellion and false security. The declaration follows a direct warning that the nation has consistently ignored since youth.
The words — The Hebrew ר֔וּחַ (Ru.ach) means a driving wind, and יֵלֵ֑כוּ (ye.Le.khu) denotes they will go into captivity. These verbs frame the forced removal of leadership and allies as an inescapable decree.
The thread — The collapse of royal and spiritual leadership mirrors the senseless shepherds of Jeremiah 10:21 and the destroyers in Jeremiah 12:10. The sudden national rupture aligns with the shocking devastation recorded in Jeremiah 5:30.
Why it lands — The text states that persistent wickedness will produce public shame and the loss of all protective alliances. It requires readers to recognize that ignoring divine warning guarantees humiliation and displacement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 5:30 A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
- Jeremiah 10:21 For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
- Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- Jeremiah 23:1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?
- Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
- Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
- Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 2:8 The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.