Jeremiah 3:15

The NET Bible®

I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will give you shepherds who are loyal to me, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill.

Hebrew Names Version
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

King James Version
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

English Standard Version
"‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

New American Standard Bible
"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.

New Century Version
Then I will give you new rulers who will be faithful to me, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

Amplified Bible
"Then [in the final time] I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and [true] understanding.

World English Bible
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will giue you pastours according to mine heart, which shal feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will shepherd you on knowledge and understanding.

Berean Standard Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Contemporary English Version
Then I'll appoint wise rulers who will obey me, and they will care for you like shepherds.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and they will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Darby Translation
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then I will give you new rulers who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will give you rulers according to my own heart, who will govern you with knowledge and understanding.

Good News Translation
I will give you rulers who obey me, and they will rule you with wisdom and understanding.

Lexham English Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.

Literal Translation
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and will geue you hyrdme after myne owne mynde, which shal fede you with lernynge and wy?dome.

American Standard Version
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Bible in Basic English
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

King James Version (1611)
And I will giue you Pastours according to mine heart, which shall feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And wyll geue you heardmen after myne owne mynde, which shall feede you with learnyng and wisdome.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.

English Revised Version
and I will give you shepherds according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y schal yyue to you scheepherdis after myn herte, and thei schulen feede you with kunnyng and teching.

Update Bible Version
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

New King James Version
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

New Living Translation
And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.

New Life Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with much learning and understanding.

New Revised Standard
I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and will give you shepherds according to mine own heart, - who will feed you with knowledge and discretion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.

Revised Standard Version
"'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

Contextual Overview

¹² "Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. Tell them, ‘Come back to me, wayward Israel,' says the Lord . ‘I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. For I am merciful,' says the Lord . ‘I will not be angry with you forever. ¹³ However, you must confess that you have done wrong, and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You must confess that you have given yourself to foreign gods under every green tree, and have not obeyed my commands,' says the Lord . ¹⁴ "Come back to me, my wayward sons," says the Lord , "for I am your true master. If you do, I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion. ¹⁵ I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight. ¹⁶ In those days, your population will greatly increase in the land. At that time," says the Lord , "people will no longer talk about having the ark that contains the Lord 's covenant with us. They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more! ¹⁷ At that time the city of Jerusalem will be called the Lord 's throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the Lord 's name. They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. ¹⁸ At that time the nation of Judah and the nation of Israel will be reunited. Together they will come back from a land in the north to the land that I gave to your ancestors as a permanent possession." ¹⁹ "I thought to myself, ‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!' I thought you would call me, ‘Father' and would never cease being loyal to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And I: Jeremiah 23:4, 1 Samuel 13:14, Isaiah 30:20, Isaiah 30:21, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 37:24, Micah 5:4, Micah 5:5, John 10:1-5, John 21:15-17, Ephesians 4:11, Ephesians 4:12, 1 Peter 5:1-4

which shall: Proverbs 10:21, Luke 12:42, John 21:15, John 21:17, Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 2:6, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 1 Corinthians 3:1, 1 Corinthians 3:2, Hebrews 5:12-14, 1 Peter 2:2, 1 Peter 5:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 27:16 - set a man 2 Samuel 7:7 - feed 1 Chronicles 11:2 - Thou shalt Ezra 8:18 - a man of understanding Ezekiel 34:15 - General Hosea 2:19 - And I will Matthew 9:38 - that Luke 10:2 - the Lord Colossians 1:28 - in all

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"

Genesis 3:3
but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"

Genesis 3:4
The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

Genesis 3:10
The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,.... Which is to be understood not of political rulers and governors, but ministers of the word; who are "pastors" or "shepherds" under Christ the great Shepherd, and are "gifts" of his to the churches, and "according to his heart"; or "conformable to his mind", as the Arabic version; whom he calls, qualifies, puts into the ministry, and sends forth; whom he holds in his right hand, and keeps as the apple of his eye; who do his will, as the Targum, and feed men according to his heart: and as this prophecy belongs to Gospel times, as appears both by what goes before and by what follows, the apostles of Christ and first ministers of the Gospel are chiefly designed; though it might have some accomplishment in Nehemiah and Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, at and after the Jews return from Babylon; but a more complete one in the times mentioned: so Kimchi says, these are they that shall be with the King Messiah, according to Micah 5:5:

which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding; with things worthy to be known and understood; with the solid and substantial truths of the Gospel, and by faithfully administering the ordinances of it; and in all directing to Christ the bread of life: or, "shall rule you" f not in an arbitrary way, according to their own ills, but according to the laws of Christ: these words, with knowledge and understanding, may either intend the matter with which these pastors should feed the church; which is what tends to spiritual knowledge and understanding, and an increase thereof; and which is blessed of God to such a purpose, though they themselves cannot give it: or else the manner in which they should feed or rule; that is, wisely and "prudently", as the Arabic version renders it: they feed wisely and prudently when they rightly divide the word of truth, and give to every one their portion of meat in due season; and feed them in proportion to their age and capacity, give milk to babes, and meat to strong men: and they rule with wisdom and prudence when they govern according to the laws of Christ, and take care that they are put in execution; and do all things decently and in order; and, as David, feed the flock according to the integrity of their hearts, and guide them by the skilfulness of their hands, Psalms 78:72.

f ורעו "regent", Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Pastors - “Kings, rulers” (compare Jeremiah 2:8). Not military usurpers Hosea 8:4, but true servants of God, as David 1 Samuel 13:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 3:15. I will give you pastors according to mine heart — The pastor means either the king or the prophet; and the pastors here promised may be either kings or prophets, or both. These shall be according to God's own heart; they shall be of his own choosing and shall be qualified by himself: and in consequence they shall feed the people with knowledge, דעה deah, that Divine truth concerning the true God and the best interests of man, which was essentially necessary to their salvation; and understanding השכיל haskeil, the full interpretation of every point, that in receiving the truth they might become wise, holy, and happy.