Jeremiah 6:3

Jeremiah chapter 6 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Context

v.2The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

v.3This passage

v.4Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Cross references

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

  • Jeremiah 4:16

    Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

  • Jeremiah 12:10

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Luke 19:43

    For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

  • Jeremiah 39:1

    (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;

  • Nahum 3:18

    Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

  • 2 Kings 24:2

    And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servants the prophets.