For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
Jeremiah 23:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WOE TO the shepherds (the civil leaders) who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasturing! says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Watch out, you shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version "Woe to the shepherds who scatter and tear apart the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to the pastors that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord. |
For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Yisra'el ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their Kohanim, and their prophets;
The Kohanim didn't say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba`al, and walked after things that do not profit.
The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
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.
Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.
As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Yerushalayim in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For the LORD of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Yehudah, and will make them as his horse in the battle that he is proud of.
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.*
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.