Zechariah 10:3
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3 (A)“My anger is hot against the shepherds,
and (B)I will punish the leaders;[a]
for (C)the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,
and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
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- Zechariah 10:3 Hebrew the male goats
Zechariah 11:17
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17 (A)“Woe to my worthless shepherd,
(B)who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and (C)his right eye!
Let his arm be wholly withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!”
Zephaniah 2:7
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Ezekiel 34:20-21
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20 “Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you push with side and shoulder, and (A)thrust at all the (B)weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
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Ezekiel 34:16-17
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16 (A)I will seek the lost, (B)and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and (C)the fat and the strong I will destroy.[a] I will feed them in justice.
17 “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: (D)Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and (E)male goats.
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- Ezekiel 34:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over
Ezekiel 34:7-10
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7 “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8 (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because (B)my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep, 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 Thus says the Lord God, (C)Behold, I am against the shepherds, and (D)I will require my sheep at their hand and (E)put a stop to their feeding the sheep. (F)No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. (G)I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
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Ezekiel 34:2
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2 (A)“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: (B)Ah, shepherds of Israel (C)who have been feeding yourselves! (D)Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
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Jeremiah 25:34
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34 (A)“Wail, (B)you shepherds, and cry out,
(C)and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.
Jeremiah 23:1-2
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The Righteous Branch
23 (A)“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning (B)the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. (C)Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord.
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Proverbs 21:31
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1 Peter 2:12
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12 (A)Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, (B)they may see your good deeds and glorify God on (C)the day of visitation.
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Luke 1:68
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Matthew 25:32-33
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32 Before him (A)will be gathered (B)all the nations, and (C)he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates (D)the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.
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Zechariah 11:5-8
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5 (A)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, (B)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For (C)I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”
7 (D)So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named (E)Favor, the other I named (F)Union. (G)And I tended the sheep. 8 In one month (H)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
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Zephaniah 1:8
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8 And on the day of the Lord's sacrifice—
(A)“I will punish the officials and the king's sons
and (B)all who array themselves in foreign attire.
Jeremiah 50:6
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6 (A)“My people have been lost sheep. (B)Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.
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Jeremiah 25:12
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12 Then after (A)seventy years are completed, (B)I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, (C)the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, (D)making the land an everlasting waste.
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Jeremiah 11:22
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22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
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Jeremiah 10:21
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21 (A)For the shepherds (B)are stupid
and do not inquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
(C)and all their flock is scattered.
Isaiah 56:9-12
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Israel's Irresponsible Leaders
9 (A)All you beasts of the field, come to devour—
all you beasts in the forest.
10 (B)His watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent (C)dogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 (D)The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But (E)they are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
(F)each to his own gain, one and all.
12 (G)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(H)and tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”
Isaiah 24:21
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21 On that day the Lord will punish
the host of heaven, in heaven,
and (A)the kings of the earth, on the earth.
Isaiah 10:12
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12 (A)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, (B)he[a] will punish the speech[b] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
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- Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I
- Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit
Ruth 1:6
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Ruth's Loyalty to Naomi
6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that (A)the Lord had visited his people and (B)given them food.
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Exodus 4:31
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31 And the people (A)believed; and when they heard that the Lord had (B)visited the people of Israel and that he had (C)seen their affliction, (D)they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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