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King James Version
Jeremiah 6:3
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.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;they will pitch their tents all around her.Each will pasture his own portion.
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;they will pitch their tents all around her.Each will pasture his own portion.
Hebrew Names Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
English Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.
New American Standard Bible
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.
New Century Version
Shepherds with their flocks will come against Jerusalem. They will set up their tents all around her, each shepherd taking care of his own section."
Shepherds with their flocks will come against Jerusalem. They will set up their tents all around her, each shepherd taking care of his own section."
Amplified Bible
"Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; They will pitch their tents all around her; They will pasture, each one in his place [eating up all her rich grasses].
"Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; They will pitch their tents all around her; They will pasture, each one in his place [eating up all her rich grasses].
World English Bible
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The pastors with their flockes shall come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes rounde about by her, & euery one shal feede in his place.
The pastors with their flockes shall come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes rounde about by her, & euery one shal feede in his place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her;They will pitch their tents around her;They will pasture each in his place.
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her;They will pitch their tents around her;They will pasture each in his place.
Berean Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:
Contemporary English Version
then let their flocks eat all the grass.
then let their flocks eat all the grass.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shepherds advance on her with their flocks; all around her they pitch their tents, each grazing his own plot of pasture.
Shepherds advance on her with their flocks; all around her they pitch their tents, each grazing his own plot of pasture.
Darby Translation
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.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Enemy shepherds will surround you with all their flocks. They will set up their tents all around you, and each one will let his sheep eat the grass.
Enemy shepherds will surround you with all their flocks. They will set up their tents all around you, and each one will let his sheep eat the grass.
George Lamsa Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Good News Translation
kings will camp there with their armies. They will pitch their tents around the city, and each of them will camp wherever they want.
kings will camp there with their armies. They will pitch their tents around the city, and each of them will camp wherever they want.
Lexham English Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his portion.
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his portion.
Literal Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around. They shall each one feed in his hand.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around. They shall each one feed in his hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their tentes shal they pitch rounde aboute her, and euery one shal fede with his honde.
Their tentes shal they pitch rounde aboute her, and euery one shal fede with his honde.
American Standard Version
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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
King James Version (1611)
The shepheards with their flocks shall come vnto her: they shall pitch their tents against her round about: they shall feede, euery one in his place.
The shepheards with their flocks shall come vnto her: they shall pitch their tents against her round about: they shall feede, euery one in his place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their tentes shall they pitche rounde about her, and euery one shall feede in his place.
Their tentes shall they pitche rounde about her, and euery one shall feede in his place.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.
The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.
English Revised Version
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.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Scheepherdis and her flockis schulen come to it; thei han piyt tentis in it in cumpas; ech man schal feede hem, that ben vndur his hond.
Scheepherdis and her flockis schulen come to it; thei han piyt tentis in it in cumpas; ech man schal feede hem, that ben vndur his hond.
Update Bible Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Webster's Bible Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
New English Translation
Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.
Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.
New King James Version
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place."
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place."
New Living Translation
Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city. Each chooses a place for his troops to devour.
Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city. Each chooses a place for his troops to devour.
New Life Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her. They will set up their tents around her and feed their flocks there, each in his place.
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her. They will set up their tents around her and feed their flocks there, each in his place.
New Revised Standard
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, all in their places.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, all in their places.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.
Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.
Revised Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
Young's Literal Translation
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each [in] his own station.
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each [in] his own station.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.
Contextual Overview
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 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. 4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 6 For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shepherds: Nahum 3:18
they shall: Jeremiah 4:16, Jeremiah 4:17, Jeremiah 39:1-3, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:10-12, 2 Kings 25:1-4, Luke 19:43
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 12:10 - pastors Jeremiah 52:4 - pitched Lamentations 1:17 - commanded Lamentations 4:5 - that did
Cross-References
Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:15
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Numbers 11:17
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Psalms 78:39
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her,.... Kings and their armies, as the Targum paraphrases it; kings and generals are compared to shepherds, and their armies to flocks, who are under their command and direction; here they design Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with his generals and armies, who should come up against Jerusalem, as to a good pasture:
they shall pitch their tents against her round about; their military tents, in allusion to pastoral ones. The phrase is expressive of the Chaldean army surrounding and besieging Jerusalem:
they shall feed everyone in his place; where he is ordered and fixed by his head general: or, "everyone shall feed his hand" p: the sheep of his hand; see Psalms 95:7, "them that are under his hand", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; who are committed to his care and charge. The meaning is, he shall direct the company or companies of soldiers under him, where to be, and what part to take in the siege; or "with his hand", as the Septuagint, with the skilfulness of his hands,
Psalms 78:72, or with might and power; or "at his hand", as the Arabic version; what is at hand, what is nearest to him; or according to his will and pleasure. The Targum is,
"everyone shall help his neighbour.''
The sense, according to Kimchi, is, one king or general shall lay siege against a city, or against cities, and so another, until they have consumed and subdued the whole land.
p רעו איש את ידו "paverunt unusquisque manum suam", Montanus; "eos qui sub manu sua sunt", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To it shall come “shepherds with their flocks:”
They have pitched upon it “their tents round about:”
They have pastured each his hand, “i. e., side.”
The pasture is so abundant that each feeds his flock, i. e., plunders Jerusalem, at the side of his own tent.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 6:3. The shepherds with their flocks — The chiefs and their battalions. The invading army is about to spoil and waste all the fertile fields round about the city, while engaged in the siege.
