Jeremiah 23:1
Woe be vnto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheepe of my pasture, saith the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:8The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me not: the pastours also offended against me, and the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profite.
Jeremiah 10:21For the Pastours are become beasts, and haue not sought the Lord: therefore haue they none vnderstanding: and all the flockes of their pastures are scattered.
Jeremiah 22:22The wind shall feede all thy pastors, and thy louers shall goe into captiuitie: and then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded of al thy wickednesse.
Jeremiah 23:11For both the prophet and the Priest doe wickedly: and their wickednesse haue I found in mine House, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:6My people hath beene as lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, and haue turned them away to the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hil, and forgotten their resting place.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the mids thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the riches and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the mids thereof.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:1
In this chapter the prophet, in God's name, is dealing his reproofs and threatenings, I. Among the careless princes, or pastors of the people ( ver. 1, 2 ), yet promising to take care of the flock, which they had been wanting in their duty to, ver. 3-8 . II. Among the wicked prophets and priests, whose bad character is here given at large in divers instances, especially their imposing upon the people with their pretended inspirations, at which the prophet is astonished, and for which they must expect to be… Read the whole commentary →