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Thursday, September 11th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Ezekiel 34:7

For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Rulers;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Shepherds/pastors;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Pastor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Principality Principalities ;   Shepherd;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pastor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
King James Version
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord ;
English Standard Version
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
New American Standard Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
New Century Version
"‘So, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord . This is what the Lord God says:
Amplified Bible
Therefore, you [spiritual] shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore ye shepherds, heare the woorde of the Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Contemporary English Version
Now listen to what I, the living Lord God, am saying to you shepherds. My sheep have been attacked and eaten by wild animals, because you refused to watch them. You never went looking for the lost ones, and you fed yourselves without feeding my sheep.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Adonai :
Darby Translation
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
Easy-to-Read Version
So, you shepherds, listen to the word of the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Good News Translation
"Now, you shepherds, listen to what I, the Lord , am telling you.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore, hear, O shepherds, the word of Yahweh:
Literal Translation
For this reason, shepherds, hear the Word of Jehovah:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore o ye shepherdes heare the worde off the LORDE,
American Standard Version
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
King James Version (1611)
Therefore, yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore O ye shepheardes, heare the worde of the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
English Revised Version
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
World English Bible
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor, scheepherdis, here ye the word of the Lord;
Update Bible Version
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
New English Translation
"‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
New King James Version
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
New Living Translation
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
New Life Bible
So, you shepherds, hear the Word of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord :
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore ye shepherds, hear ye the word of Yahweh:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
Revised Standard Version
"Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:
THE MESSAGE
"‘Therefore, shepherds, listen to the Message of God : As sure as I am the living God—Decree of God , the Master—because my sheep have been turned into mere prey, into easy meals for wolves because you shepherds ignored them and only fed yourselves, listen to what God has to say:

Contextual Overview

7 For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord: 8 By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food; 9 For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord; 10 This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them. 11 For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep. 12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night. 13 And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country. 14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord. 16 I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:9, Psalms 82:1-7, Isaiah 1:10, Jeremiah 13:13, Jeremiah 13:18, Jeremiah 22:2, Jeremiah 22:3, Micah 3:8, Micah 3:9, Malachi 2:1, Matthew 23:13-36, Luke 11:39-54

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 13:20 - where Ezekiel 13:2 - Hear Ezekiel 16:35 - hear Zechariah 10:3 - anger

Cross-References

Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.
Genesis 34:5
Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.
Genesis 34:6
Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.
Genesis 34:12
However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.
Genesis 34:13
But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.
Genesis 34:22
But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.
Genesis 34:25
But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.
Genesis 46:7
His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.
Leviticus 4:2
Say to the children of Israel: These are the offerings of anyone who does wrong through error, doing any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done:
Leviticus 4:13
And if all the people of Israel do wrong, without anyone's knowledge; if they have done any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done, causing sin to come on them;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. Or, "ye governors", as the Targum, both civil and ecclesiastical; ye kings, princes, and magistrates; ye prophets and teachers of the people, who ought to have attended to the word of grace, to the doctrines of the Scriptures, and fed the people with them; but, since you have not, hear the word of threatening from the Lord, and the just punishment that shall be inflicted on you.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:7. Therefore, ye shepherds, (ye bad and wicked shepherds,) hear the word of the Lord — In the preceding character of the good shepherd the reader will find, by reversing the particulars, the character of a bad shepherd; and therefore I may be excused from entering into farther detail.


 
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