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Jeremiah 10:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered. "

Jeremiah 10:21

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19 Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

20 My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.

21 For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.

22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

23 LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

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Jeremiah 23:1

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"“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD."

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Jeremiah 12:10

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"Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness."

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Nahum 3:18

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"Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them."

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Joel 1:18

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"How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate."

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Genesis 46:32

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"These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’"

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Ezekiel 34:2-10

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"“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?"

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Jeremiah 10:1

"Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel!"

Jeremiah 10:2

"The LORD says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them."

Jeremiah 10:3

"For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax."

Jeremiah 10:4

"They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move."

Jeremiah 10:5

"They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”"

Jeremiah 10:6

"There is no one like you, LORD. You are great, and your name is great in might."

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