1 Peter 2:25
For you were KULLANU KA'TZON TA'INU (all of us like sheep we went astray), + 2:25 Isa 53:6 for you were as sheep being led astray, but you made teshuva now to the Ro'eh + 2:25 Ezek 34:1-16 and Mashgiach (Overseer) + 2:25 Job 10:12 of your nefashot (souls).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 23:1(Mizmor of Dovid) 1 I shall not lack. 1
Psalms 119:176I have gone astray like a seh oved (lost sheep); 1 seek Thy eved; for I do not forget Thy mitzvot.
Isaiah 40:11He shall feed His Eder like a Ro'eh; 1 He shall gather the tela'im (lambs) with His zero'a, 1 and carry them in His kheyk, 1 and shall gently lead those that are with young. 1
Jeremiah 23:2Therefore thus saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel against the ro'im that shepherd My people; Ye have scattered My tzon, and driven them away, and have not attended to them; hineni, I will attend to you for the rah of your doings, saith Hashem.
Ezekiel 34:11For thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hineni, I, even I, will both search for My tzon, and seek after them.
Ezekiel 37:24And Avdi Dovid + 37:24 Moshiach shall be Melech over them; and they all shall have Ro'eh Echad; they shall also walk in My mishpatim, and observe My chukkot, and do them.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25
Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →