Ezekiel 34:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and scattered they became food for all the wild animals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts of the field.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

Common English Bible

⁵ Without a shepherd, my flock was scattered; and when it was scattered, it became food for all the wild animals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd. And they became devoured by all the wild beasts of the field, and they were dispersed.

Ezekiel 34:5 Cross References

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

2 Chronicles 18:16

Then Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each one go home in peace.’ ”

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live, says the Lord God, because my sheep have become a prey and my sheep have become food for all the wild animals, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves and have not fed my sheep,

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.

Isaiah 56:9

All you wild animals, all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!

1 Kings 22:17

Then Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each one go home in peace.’ ”

John 10:2

The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Ezekiel 34:28

They shall no more be plunder for the nations, nor shall the animals of the land devour them; they shall live in safety, and no one shall make them afraid.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with no one to search or seek for them.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and its proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.

Ezekiel 33:21

In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen.”

Numbers 27:17

who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

Mark 6:34

As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the Lord; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.