Ezekiel 34:5
New International Version
5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd,(A) and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(B)
Matthew 9:36
New International Version
36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them,(A) because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.(B)
2 Chronicles 18:16
New International Version
16 Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel(A) scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd,(B) and the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’”
Acts 20:29-31
New International Version
29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves(A) will come in among you and will not spare the flock.(B) 30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples(C) after them. 31 So be on your guard! Remember that for three years(D) I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.(E)
Ezekiel 34:8
New International Version
8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered(A) and has become food for all the wild animals,(B) and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,(C)
Jeremiah 50:17
New International Version
Jeremiah 23:2
New International Version
2 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds(A) who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock(B) and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil(C) you have done,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 56:9
New International Version
God’s Accusation Against the Wicked
9 Come, all you beasts of the field,(A)
come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
1 Kings 22:17
New International Version
17 Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered(A) on the hills like sheep without a shepherd,(B) and the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’”
John 10:2
New International Version
2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.(A)
Zechariah 13:7
New International Version
The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered
Ezekiel 34:28
New International Version
28 They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety,(A) and no one will make them afraid.(B)
Ezekiel 34:6
New International Version
6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill.(A) They were scattered(B) over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.(C)
Ezekiel 33:28
New International Version
28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains(A) of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.(B)
Ezekiel 33:21
New International Version
Jerusalem’s Fall Explained
21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped(A) from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!(B)”
Jeremiah 50:6-7
New International Version
6 “My people have been lost sheep;(A)
their shepherds(B) have led them astray(C)
and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill(D)
and forgot their own resting place.(E)
7 Whoever found them devoured(F) them;
their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(G)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
the Lord, the hope(H) of their ancestors.’
Jeremiah 12:9-12
New International Version
9 Has not my inheritance become to me
like a speckled bird of prey
that other birds of prey surround and attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
bring them to devour.(A)
10 Many shepherds(B) will ruin my vineyard
and trample down my field;
they will turn my pleasant field
into a desolate wasteland.(C)
11 It will be made a wasteland,(D)
parched and desolate before me;(E)
the whole land will be laid waste
because there is no one who cares.
12 Over all the barren heights in the desert
destroyers will swarm,
for the sword(F) of the Lord(G) will devour(H)
from one end of the land to the other;(I)
no one will be safe.(J)
Numbers 27:17
New International Version
17 to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the Lord’s people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”(A)
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.