Jeremiah 23:4

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I will appoint shepherds over them who will care for them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares the LORD.

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  • Jer 3:14-15 : 14 Return, faithless children,' declares the LORD, 'for I am your master. I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion. 15 Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.
  • Mic 5:4-5 : 4 And he will be their peace. When Assyria invades our land and marches through our fortresses, we will raise up against them seven shepherds and eight leaders of men. 5 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with drawn blades. He will deliver us from Assyria when they invade our land and march across our borders.
  • John 21:15-17 : 15 When they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?' Peter replied, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my lambs.' 16 Jesus asked him again, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' Peter answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Take care of my sheep.' 17 The third time, Jesus asked, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' Peter was hurt that Jesus asked him a third time, 'Do you love me?' He said, 'Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my sheep.'
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who are being guarded by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • 1 Pet 5:1-4 : 1 I urge the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings, and also as one who will share in the glory to be revealed. 2 Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, watching over them—not under compulsion, but freely; not for dishonest gain, but eagerly. 3 Do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock. 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
  • Acts 20:28-29 : 28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood. 29 I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
  • Num 31:49 : 49 and said to Moses, 'Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.'
  • Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds. 71 From tending the nursing ewes, He brought him to shepherd Jacob, His people, and Israel, His inheritance. 72 He shepherded them with a heart of integrity and guided them with the skillfulness of his hands.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 In that day, the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant of his people who are left from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
  • Mic 7:14 : 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who live alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as they did in days of old.
  • John 6:39-40 : 39 'And this is the will of him who sent me: that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up on the last day.' 40 For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.
  • John 10:27-30 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.
  • John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them, I protected them and guarded them by Your name, the name You gave Me. None of them has been lost except the son of destruction, so that Scripture might be fulfilled.
  • John 18:9 : 9 This was to fulfill the words he had spoken: 'I have not lost one of those you gave me.'
  • Jer 30:10 : 10 So do not fear, Jacob, my servant, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, Israel. For behold, I will save you from afar and your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return and have quiet and ease, and no one will make him afraid.
  • Jer 31:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; declare it in the distant coastlands and say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd cares for his flock.
  • Jer 33:26 : 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.
  • Jer 46:27-28 : 27 But as for you, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, Israel. For I will save you from far away and your descendants from their captivity. Jacob will return and will be at peace and secure, with no one to make him afraid. 28 Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, declares the Lord, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you justly, but I will not leave you entirely unpunished.
  • Ezek 34:23-31 : 23 I will place over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd. 24 I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken. 25 I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of wild animals, so they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests. 26 I will make them and the areas surrounding My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in their season—showers of blessing will come. 27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the land will produce its crops. They will live securely on their land and know that I am the LORD when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them. 28 They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them. They will live securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29 I will provide them with a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the disgrace of the nations. 30 Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they are My people—the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD. 31 You are My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord GOD.
  • Hos 3:3-5 : 3 And I said to her, "You must stay with me for many days. You shall not engage in prostitution or belong to another man, and I will also remain loyal to you." 4 For the children of Israel will live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. 5 Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come in awe to the Lord and to His goodness in the latter days.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 Therefore, he will give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth, and the rest of his brothers will return to join the children of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 34:22-24
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    85%

    22I will save My flock so they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

    23I will place over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.

    24I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

  • Jer 23:1-3
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    81%

    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, declares the LORD.

    2Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the shepherds who tend My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I am about to punish you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.

    3Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.

  • Jer 3:15
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    15Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

  • Ezek 34:5-16
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    5So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild animals; they were scattered.

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

    8'As surely as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'because My flock has become prey and My flock has become food for every wild animal since there was no shepherd and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,

    9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.

    10This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My flock from their hand and stop them from shepherding My flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths, so it will no longer be food for them.'

    11For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and look after them.

    12As a shepherd looks after his scattered sheep when he is with them, so I will look after My flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

    13I will bring them out from the nations, gather them from the countries, and bring them to their own land. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

    14I will feed them in good pasture, and their grazing land will be on the high mountains of Israel. There they will lie down in a pleasant grazing land and feed in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel.

    15I Myself will tend My flock and cause them to lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

    16I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the injured, and strengthen the weak. But the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will shepherd them with justice.

  • Zech 11:15-16
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    79%

    15The LORD said to me, 'Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

    16For behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those being destroyed, seek the young, heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.'

  • Zech 11:4
    78%

    4This is what the LORD my God says: ‘Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.’

  • Jer 25:35-36
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    35The shepherds will have no refuge, and the leaders of the flock will find no escape.

    36Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

  • Ps 23:1
    76%

    1A psalm of David: The LORD is my shepherd; I will lack nothing.

  • Mic 5:4
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    4And he will be their peace. When Assyria invades our land and marches through our fortresses, we will raise up against them seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.

  • Jer 23:5
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    5Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will reign as king, act wisely, and execute justice and righteousness in the land.

  • Jer 33:12-13
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    12This is what the Lord Almighty says: In this desolate place, without people or animals, and in all its towns, there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

    13In the towns of the hill country, the western foothills, and the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 34:28-29
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    28They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them. They will live securely, and no one will make them afraid.

    29I will provide them with a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the disgrace of the nations.

  • Zech 11:7
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    7So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs—one I called Favor and the other Union—and I shepherded the flock.

  • Ezek 34:1-2
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    75%

    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, the shepherds: This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

  • Ezek 37:24
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    24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My laws and carefully obey My decrees.

  • Jer 31:10
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    10Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; declare it in the distant coastlands and say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd cares for his flock.

  • Jer 10:21
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    21The shepherds are senseless and do not seek the Lord; therefore they do not prosper, and all their flock is scattered.

  • Isa 40:11
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    11He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.

  • Jer 50:19
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    19I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

  • Mic 7:14
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    14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who live alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as they did in days of old.

  • Jer 50:6
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    6My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to wander on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill and forgotten their resting place.

  • Zech 13:7
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    7Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My companion, declares the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

  • Jer 6:3
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    3Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents surrounding her and graze, each in his place.

  • Zeph 3:13
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    13The remnant of Israel will do no wrong, they will speak no lies, nor will deceit be found in their mouths. They will graze and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

  • 1 Kgs 22:17
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    17Then Micaiah said, 'I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, “These people have no master; each one should go home in peace.”'

  • Ezek 34:31
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    31You are My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 50:44
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    44Behold, like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan to a secure pasture, I will drive them away suddenly from it. I will appoint whoever is chosen for it. For who is like me? Who can summon me? And what shepherd can stand against me?

  • Mic 4:7
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    7'I will make the lame a remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from that time on and forever.'

  • Jer 30:9
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    9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

  • Jer 31:14
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    14I will satisfy the priests with abundance, and my people will be filled with my goodness, declares the LORD.