Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 23:2

Jeremiah chapter 23 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that 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, saith Jehovah.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that 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, saith the Lord.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that 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, saith Jehovah.

Context

v.1Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.

v.2This passage

v.3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Jeremiah 23:34

    And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

  • Jeremiah 5:29

    Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Matthew 25:43

    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

  • Jeremiah 11:22

    therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

  • Micah 7:4

    The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.