Jeremiah 23:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:21

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

Jeremiah 12:10

The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

Jeremiah 22:22

All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.

Jeremiah 23:2

So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:6

My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

Ezekiel 13:3

This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 34:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 34:21

Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;

Ezekiel 34:31

And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:38

Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Zechariah 10:3

My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 9:36

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

John 10:12

He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

John 10:8

All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.