Jeremiah 3:15
What does Jeremiah 3:15 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 3:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Context
v.14Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
v.15This passage
v.16And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 5:12
For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
- Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
- 1 Peter 5:1
The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
- 1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
- Micah 5:4
And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
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