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Bishop's Bible

Ezekiel 34:5

They are scattered without a shephearde, yea all the beastes of the fielde deuour them, and they go astray.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Minister, Christian;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Shepherds/pastors;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Shepherd;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Lamb, Lamb of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Micaiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Flock;   Pastor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Shepherd;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pastor;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sheep;   Shepherd;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"‘And now the sheep are scattered because there was no shepherd. They became food for every wild animal, so they were scattered.
New Living Translation
So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd, and they are easy prey for any wild animal.
New American Standard Bible
"They scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every animal of the field and scattered.
New Century Version
The sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for every wild animal.
New English Translation
They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.
Update Bible Version
And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they became food to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
Amplified Bible
"They were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the predators of the field.
English Standard Version
So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;
World English Bible
They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And my scheep weren scaterid, for no sheepherde was; and thei weren maad in to deuouryng of alle beestis of the feeld, and thei weren scaterid.
English Revised Version
And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
Berean Standard Bible
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered, they became food for all the wild beasts.
Contemporary English Version
They strayed in every direction, and because there was no shepherd to watch them, they were attacked and eaten by wild animals.
American Standard Version
And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
Bible in Basic English
And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.
Complete Jewish Bible
So they were scattered, without a shepherd, and became food for every wild animal — they were scattered.
Darby Translation
And they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So were they scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
King James Version (1611)
And they were scattered because there is no shepheard: and they became meate to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
New Life Bible
They went everywhere because they had no shepherd. And they became food for every animal of the field.
New Revised Standard
So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and scattered, they became food for all the wild animals.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they were scattered without a shepherde: and when they were dispersed, they were deuoured of all the beastes of the fielde.
George Lamsa Translation
And my sheep were scattered because they had no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts of the field.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; And they became food for every wild beast of the field. So were they scattered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And my sheep were scattered, because there was no shepherd and they became the prey of all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
Revised Standard Version
So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field.
Good News Translation
Because the sheep had no shepherd, they were scattered, and wild animals killed and ate them.
Christian Standard Bible®
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd; they became food for all the wild animals when they were scattered.
Hebrew Names Version
They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
King James Version
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
Lexham English Bible
And they were scattered without a shepherd, and they were as food for all the animals of the field when they were scattered.
Literal Translation
And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.
Young's Literal Translation
And they are scattered from want of a shepherd, And are for food to every beast of the field, Yea, they are scattered.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus are they scatred here and there without a shepherde: yee all the beastes off the felde deuoure them, and they go astraye.
New King James Version
So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered.
Legacy Standard Bible
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered.

Contextual Overview

1 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: 2 Thou sonne of man, prophecie against the shepheardes of Israel, prophecie and speake vnto them: thus saith the Lorde God vnto the shepheardes, Wo be vnto the shepheardes of Israel that feede them selues: should not the shepheards feede the flockes? 3 Ye eate vp the fat, ye clothe you with the wooll, the best fed do ye slay: but the flocke do ye not feede. 4 The weake haue ye not strengthened, the sicke haue ye not healed, the broken haue ye not bounde together, the dryuen away haue ye not brought againe, the lost haue ye not sought: but with force and crueltie haue ye ruled them. 5 They are scattered without a shephearde, yea all the beastes of the fielde deuour them, and they go astray. 6 My sheepe go wandring vpon al mountaines, and vpon euery hie hill, yea my flocke is scattered through all the face of the earth, and there is no man that seeketh or searcheth [after them.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they were: Ezekiel 34:6, Ezekiel 33:21, Ezekiel 33:28, 1 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 18:16, Jeremiah 23:2, Jeremiah 50:6, Jeremiah 50:17, Zechariah 13:7, Matthew 9:36

because there is no shepherd: or, without a shepherd, and so Ezekiel 34:8, Zechariah 10:2, Zechariah 10:3

and they became: Ezekiel 34:8, Isaiah 56:9, Jeremiah 12:9-12, John 10:2, Acts 20:29-31

Reciprocal: Numbers 27:17 - as sheep Jeremiah 10:21 - their Matthew 15:24 - I am not Matthew 26:31 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 30:35
Therfore he toke out the same day the hee goates that were ryngstraked and of diuers colours, & all the shee goates that were spotted and coloured, and all that had whyte in them, & all the blacke amongst the sheepe, and put them in the kepyng of his sonnes.
Genesis 34:13
But the sonnes of Iacob aunswered to Sichem and Hemor his father, talking amongest themselues deceiptfully, because he had defiled Diua their sister.
Genesis 34:14
And they sayde vnto them: we can not do this thing, that we shoulde geue our sister to one that is vncircumcised, for that were an abomination vnto vs.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moyses sayde vnto Aaron: This is it that the Lorde spake, saying: I wyll be sanctified in them that come nye me, and before all the people I wylbe glorified. And Aaron helde his peace.
1 Samuel 10:27
But the children of Belial sayd: Howe shall he saue vs? And they despised him, and, brought him no presentes: And he helde his tongue.
1 Samuel 16:11
And Samuel sayde vnto Isai: Are heare all thy children? He sayde: There is, yet a litle one behind, that kepeth the sheepe. And Samuel said vnto Isai, Sende and fet him: for we will not syt downe, till he be come hyther.
1 Samuel 17:15
Dauid also went, and departed from Saul, to feede his fathers sheepe at Bethlehem.
2 Samuel 13:22
And Absalom sayde vnto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: Howbeit, Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Thamar.
Psalms 39:9
I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng.
Luke 15:25
The elder brother was in the fielde: and when he came and drewe nye to the house, he hearde minstrelsie & daunsing,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they were scattered because there is no shepherd,.... No good one; there were shepherds, but they were idol shepherds, good for nothing, and it was all one as if there were none: so, in Christ's time, there were the Scribes and Pharisees; yet, since these did not feed the people with wholesome doctrine, they are said to be as sheep without a shepherd, and scattered abroad, as here from the fold, and from one another; dispersed here and there, seeking food, and none, which moved his compassion, Matthew 9:36, in the political sense it may refer to their captivity, and their dispersion among the nations, having no king: So the Targum,

"and they were scattered without a governor.''

And they became meat to all beasts of the field when they were scattered; the Targum is,

"and they were delivered to all the kingdoms of the people to be consumed;''

such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Ammonites, Moabites, and others; and may be applied to false teachers, those grievous wolves, which spare not the flock, into whose hands members of churches, professors of religion, fall, when neglected by their shepherds.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:5. And they were scattered — There was no discipline kept up; and the flock, the Church, became disorganized, and separated from each other, both in affection and fellowship. And the consequence was, the grievous wolves, false and worldly interested teachers, seized on and made a prey of them. Of the communion of saints such shepherds know nothing, farther than that it makes a part of the common creed.


 
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