Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 25:34

34 ¶ Howl ye shepherds and cry, and wallow your selves 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 plesant vessel .

Shepherds and the principal of the flock, are in this place of the same significancy, by both he means the civil Rulers, so the word is used chap. 22.22. and 23.1. These he calls aforehand to bewail their face.

For the days were now come, when they should be slain and scattered.

And he tells them their fall should be like the fall of a chrystal glass, or some delicate tender vessel▪ wh[illegible: 1 letter]ch when it falleth breaketh in pieces and cannot again be set together.

Marginal references: chap. 4.8. and 6.26.; Heb. your days for slaughter.; Heb. vessel of desire.