Jeremiah 23:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

How terrible will be the Lord's judgment on those rulers who destroy and scatter his people!

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:21

I answered, “Our leaders are stupid; they do not ask the Lord for guidance. This is why they have failed, and our people have been scattered.

Ezekiel 13:3

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These foolish prophets are doomed! They provide their own inspiration and invent their own visions.

Matthew 9:36

As he saw the crowds, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Jeremiah 22:22

Your leaders will be blown away by the wind, your allies taken as prisoners of war, your city disgraced and put to shame because of all the evil you have done.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many foreign rulers have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my fields; they have turned my lovely land into a desert.

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ My own priests did not know me. The rulers rebelled against me; the prophets spoke in the name of Baal and worshiped useless idols.

John 10:12

When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

John 10:10

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness.

Jeremiah 23:2

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the rulers who were supposed to take care of his people: “You have not taken care of my people; you have scattered them and driven them away. Now I am going to punish you for the evil you have done.

Matthew 15:14

“Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch.”

Ezekiel 34:31

“You, my sheep, the flock that I feed, are my people, and I am your God,” says the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 34:21

You pushed the sick ones aside and butted them away from the flock.

Jeremiah 2:26

The Lord says, “Just as a thief is disgraced when caught, so all you people of Israel will be disgraced—your kings and officials, your priests and prophets.

John 10:8

All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you will not listen, I will cry in secret because of your pride; I will cry bitterly, and my tears will flow because the Lord's people have been taken away as captives.

Ezekiel 36:38

The cities that are now in ruins will then be as full of people as Jerusalem was once full of the sheep which were offered as sacrifices at a festival. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 34:1

The Lord spoke to me.

Zechariah 10:3

The Lord says, “I am angry with those foreigners who rule my people, and I am going to punish them. The people of Judah are mine, and I, the Lord Almighty, will take care of them. They will be my powerful war-horses.