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Jeremiah 23:1

A Conservative Version

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says LORD.

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For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

But when he saw the multitudes, he felt compassion for them, because they were troubled and dejected, as sheep having no shepherd.

The wind shall feed all thy shepherds, and thy loved ones shall go into captivity. Surely then thou shall be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting-place.

The priests did not say, Where is LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

But the hired man, and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

The thief comes not, except that he might steal and kill and destroy. I came so that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.

Therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says LORD.

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says lord LORD.

Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed, they, their kings, their rulers, and their priests, and their prophets,

All, as many as came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am LORD.

And the word of LORD came to me, saying,

My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats. For LORD of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly horse in the battle.




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