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Literal Standard Version

Jeremiah 3:15

And I have given shepherds to you || According to My own heart, || And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Church;   Condescension of God;   God Continued...;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jesus, the Christ;   Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Feeding the Flock;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   Leaders;   Ministers;   Names;   Religious;   Spiritual;   Titles and Names;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Israel/jews;   Jerusalem;   Shepherds/pastors;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ Is God;   Church, the;   Ministers;   Titles and Names of Ministers;   Trinity, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shepherd;   Solomon's Song;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shepherd;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Israel;   Shepherd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gift, Giving;   Pastor;   Winterhouse;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah;   Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Shepherd;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pastor;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ammi;   Feed;   Jeremiah;   Pastor;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   Pastor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will give you shepherds who are loyal to me, and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill.
Hebrew Names Version
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
King James Version
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
English Standard Version
"‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
New American Standard Bible
"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.
New Century Version
Then I will give you new rulers who will be faithful to me, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.
Amplified Bible
"Then [in the final time] I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and [true] understanding.
World English Bible
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will giue you pastours according to mine heart, which shal feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will shepherd you on knowledge and understanding.
Berean Standard Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Contemporary English Version
Then I'll appoint wise rulers who will obey me, and they will care for you like shepherds.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and they will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Darby Translation
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then I will give you new rulers who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and understanding.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will give you rulers according to my own heart, who will govern you with knowledge and understanding.
Good News Translation
I will give you rulers who obey me, and they will rule you with wisdom and understanding.
Lexham English Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.
Literal Translation
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and will geue you hyrdme after myne owne mynde, which shal fede you with lernynge and wy?dome.
American Standard Version
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Bible in Basic English
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
King James Version (1611)
And I will giue you Pastours according to mine heart, which shall feede you with knowledge and vnderstanding.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And wyll geue you heardmen after myne owne mynde, which shall feede you with learnyng and wisdome.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.
English Revised Version
and I will give you shepherds according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y schal yyue to you scheepherdis after myn herte, and thei schulen feede you with kunnyng and teching.
Update Bible Version
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
New English Translation
I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.
New King James Version
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
New Living Translation
And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.
New Life Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with much learning and understanding.
New Revised Standard
I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and will give you shepherds according to mine own heart, - who will feed you with knowledge and discretion.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
Revised Standard Version
"'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

Contextual Overview

12Go, and you have proclaimed these words toward the north, and have said, Return, O backsliding Israel," || A declaration of YHWH! "I do not cause My anger to fall on you, for I [am] kind," || A declaration of YHWH, || "I do not watch for all time. 13Only, know your iniquity, || For you have transgressed against your God YHWH, || And you scatter your ways to strangers, || Under every green tree, || And you have not listened to My voice," || A declaration of YHWH. 14"Return, O backsliding sons," || A declaration of YHWH. "For I have ruled over you, || And taken you—one from a city, and two from a family, || And have brought you to Zion, 15And I have given shepherds to you || According to My own heart, || And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.16And it has come to pass, when you are multiplied, || And have been fruitful in the land, || In those days," || A declaration of YHWH, || "They no longer say, The Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, || Nor does it go up on the heart, || Nor do they remember concerning it, || Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again. 17At that time they cry to Jerusalem, O throne of YHWH, || And all the nations have been gathered to her, || For the Name of YHWH, to Jerusalem, || Nor do they go after the stubbornness of their evil heart anymore. 18In those days the house of Judah || Goes to the house of Israel, || And they come together from the land of the south, || To the land that I caused your fathers to inherit. 19And I have said, How do I put you among the sons, || And give a desirable land to you, || A beautiful inheritance of the hosts of nations, || And I say, You call Me—My Father, || And you do not turn back from after Me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And I: Jeremiah 23:4, 1 Samuel 13:14, Isaiah 30:20, Isaiah 30:21, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 37:24, Micah 5:4, Micah 5:5, John 10:1-5, John 21:15-17, Ephesians 4:11, Ephesians 4:12, 1 Peter 5:1-4

which shall: Proverbs 10:21, Luke 12:42, John 21:15, John 21:17, Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 2:6, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 1 Corinthians 3:1, 1 Corinthians 3:2, Hebrews 5:12-14, 1 Peter 2:2, 1 Peter 5:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 27:16 - set a man 2 Samuel 7:7 - feed 1 Chronicles 11:2 - Thou shalt Ezra 8:18 - a man of understanding Ezekiel 34:15 - General Hosea 2:19 - And I will Matthew 9:38 - that Luke 10:2 - the Lord Colossians 1:28 - in all

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, "Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?"
Genesis 3:3
but from the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, You do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die."
Genesis 3:4
And the serpent says to the woman, "Dying, you do not die,
Genesis 3:6
And the woman sees that the tree [is] good for food, and that it [is] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make [one] wise, and she takes from its fruit and eats, and also gives [some] to her husband with her, and he eats;
Genesis 3:7
and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make girdles for themselves.
Genesis 3:8
And they hear the sound of YHWH God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of YHWH God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:10
And he says, "I have heard Your sound in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself."
Genesis 3:13
And YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
Genesis 3:14
And YHWH God says to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed [are] you above all the livestock, and above every beast of the field: on your belly you go, and dust you eat, [for] all days of your life;
Genesis 3:15
and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,.... Which is to be understood not of political rulers and governors, but ministers of the word; who are "pastors" or "shepherds" under Christ the great Shepherd, and are "gifts" of his to the churches, and "according to his heart"; or "conformable to his mind", as the Arabic version; whom he calls, qualifies, puts into the ministry, and sends forth; whom he holds in his right hand, and keeps as the apple of his eye; who do his will, as the Targum, and feed men according to his heart: and as this prophecy belongs to Gospel times, as appears both by what goes before and by what follows, the apostles of Christ and first ministers of the Gospel are chiefly designed; though it might have some accomplishment in Nehemiah and Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, at and after the Jews return from Babylon; but a more complete one in the times mentioned: so Kimchi says, these are they that shall be with the King Messiah, according to Micah 5:5:

which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding; with things worthy to be known and understood; with the solid and substantial truths of the Gospel, and by faithfully administering the ordinances of it; and in all directing to Christ the bread of life: or, "shall rule you" f not in an arbitrary way, according to their own ills, but according to the laws of Christ: these words, with knowledge and understanding, may either intend the matter with which these pastors should feed the church; which is what tends to spiritual knowledge and understanding, and an increase thereof; and which is blessed of God to such a purpose, though they themselves cannot give it: or else the manner in which they should feed or rule; that is, wisely and "prudently", as the Arabic version renders it: they feed wisely and prudently when they rightly divide the word of truth, and give to every one their portion of meat in due season; and feed them in proportion to their age and capacity, give milk to babes, and meat to strong men: and they rule with wisdom and prudence when they govern according to the laws of Christ, and take care that they are put in execution; and do all things decently and in order; and, as David, feed the flock according to the integrity of their hearts, and guide them by the skilfulness of their hands, Psalms 78:72.

f ורעו "regent", Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Pastors - “Kings, rulers” (compare Jeremiah 2:8). Not military usurpers Hosea 8:4, but true servants of God, as David 1 Samuel 13:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 3:15. I will give you pastors according to mine heart — The pastor means either the king or the prophet; and the pastors here promised may be either kings or prophets, or both. These shall be according to God's own heart; they shall be of his own choosing and shall be qualified by himself: and in consequence they shall feed the people with knowledge, דעה deah, that Divine truth concerning the true God and the best interests of man, which was essentially necessary to their salvation; and understanding השכיל haskeil, the full interpretation of every point, that in receiving the truth they might become wise, holy, and happy.


 
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