Jeremiah 23:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds.

Cross References

Exodus 32:34

Now, go and lead the people where I have told you. See, my angel will go before you. When it is time for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.

Jeremiah 10:21

How stupid are the shepherds! The Lord they have not sought; For this reason they have failed, and all their flocks scattered.

Jeremiah 11:22

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you do not listen to this in your pride, I will weep many tears in secret; My eyes will run with tears for the Lord’s flock, led away to exile.

Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes and see those coming in from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, your splendid sheep?

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when rulers are appointed over you, those you taught to be allies? Will not pains seize you like those of a woman giving birth?

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, explore the mind and test the heart, Giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds.

Jeremiah 21:12

house of David! Thus says the Lord: Each morning dispense justice, rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, Or my fury will break out like fire and burn with no one to quench it because of your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 23:34

If a prophet or a priest or anyone else mentions “the burden of the Lord,” I will punish that man and his household.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the evil of your deeds, the abominations you were doing; then your land became a waste, a horror, a curse, without even one inhabitant, as it is today.

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish these things?—oracle of the Lord; on a nation such as this shall I not take vengeance?

Jeremiah 5:9

Should I not punish them for this?—oracle of the Lord; on a nation like this should I not take vengeance?

Jeremiah 8:12

They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they do not know how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall stumble, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:5

So they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and became food for all the wild beasts. They were scattered

Hosea 2:13

I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most honest like a thorn hedge. The day announced by your sentinels! Your punishment has come; now is the time of your confusion.

Zechariah 10:3

My wrath is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the Lord of hosts attends to the flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like a splendid horse in battle.

Zechariah 11:16

For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that disappear, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed the exhausted; but he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!

Matthew 25:36

naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’

Matthew 25:43

a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.