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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 34:7

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Pastor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Principality Principalities ;   Shepherd;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pastor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
King James Version
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord ;
English Standard Version
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
New American Standard Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
New Century Version
"‘So, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord . This is what the Lord God says:
Amplified Bible
Therefore, you [spiritual] shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore ye shepherds, heare the woorde of the Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Contemporary English Version
Now listen to what I, the living Lord God, am saying to you shepherds. My sheep have been attacked and eaten by wild animals, because you refused to watch them. You never went looking for the lost ones, and you fed yourselves without feeding my sheep.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Adonai :
Darby Translation
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
Easy-to-Read Version
So, you shepherds, listen to the word of the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Good News Translation
"Now, you shepherds, listen to what I, the Lord , am telling you.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore, hear, O shepherds, the word of Yahweh:
Literal Translation
For this reason, shepherds, hear the Word of Jehovah:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore o ye shepherdes heare the worde off the LORDE,
American Standard Version
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
Bible in Basic English
For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
King James Version (1611)
Therefore, yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore O ye shepheardes, heare the worde of the Lorde.
English Revised Version
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
World English Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor, scheepherdis, here ye the word of the Lord;
Update Bible Version
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
New English Translation
"‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
New King James Version
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
New Living Translation
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
New Life Bible
So, you shepherds, hear the Word of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore ye shepherds, hear ye the word of Yahweh:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
Revised Standard Version
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:
THE MESSAGE
"‘Therefore, shepherds, listen to the Message of God : As sure as I am the living God—Decree of God , the Master—because my sheep have been turned into mere prey, into easy meals for wolves because you shepherds ignored them and only fed yourselves, listen to what God has to say:

Contextual Overview

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. 8 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep. 9 For this cause, O shepherds, 10 thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed my sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver my sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them. 11 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will seek out my sheep, and will visit them. 12 As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated: so will I seek out my sheep, and will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to rest; and they shall know that I am the Lord: thus saith the Lord God. 16 I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:9, Psalms 82:1-7, Isaiah 1:10, Jeremiah 13:13, Jeremiah 13:18, Jeremiah 22:2, Jeremiah 22:3, Micah 3:8, Micah 3:9, Malachi 2:1, Matthew 23:13-36, Luke 11:39-54

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 13:20 - where Ezekiel 13:2 - Hear Ezekiel 16:35 - hear Zechariah 10:3 - anger

Cross-References

Genesis 20:9
And Abimelech called Abraam and said to him, What is this that thou hast done to us? Have we sinned against thee, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? Thou hast done to me a deed, which no one ought to do.
Genesis 34:5
And Jacob heard that the son of Emmor had defiled Dina his daughter (now his sons were with his cattle in the plain). And Jacob was silent until they came.
Genesis 34:6
And Emmor the father of Sychem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him.
Genesis 34:12
Multiply your demand of dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as ye shall say to me, only ye shall give me this damsel for a wife.
Genesis 34:13
And the sons of Jacob answered to Sychem and Emmor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dina their sister.
Genesis 34:22
Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.
Genesis 34:25
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.
Genesis 46:7
The sons, and the sons of his sons with him; his daughters, and the daughters of his daughters; and he brought all his seed into Egypt.
Leviticus 4:2
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin unwillingly before the Lord, in any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which he ought not to do, and shall do some of them;
Leviticus 4:13
And if the whole congregation of Israel trespass ignorantly, and a thing should escape the notice of the congregation, and they should do one thing forbidden of any of the commands of the Lord, which ought not to be done, and should transgress:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. Or, "ye governors", as the Targum, both civil and ecclesiastical; ye kings, princes, and magistrates; ye prophets and teachers of the people, who ought to have attended to the word of grace, to the doctrines of the Scriptures, and fed the people with them; but, since you have not, hear the word of threatening from the Lord, and the just punishment that shall be inflicted on you.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:7. Therefore, ye shepherds, (ye bad and wicked shepherds,) hear the word of the Lord — In the preceding character of the good shepherd the reader will find, by reversing the particulars, the character of a bad shepherd; and therefore I may be excused from entering into farther detail.


 
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