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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Jeremiah 6:3
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;they will pitch their tents all around her.Each will pasture his own portion.
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;they will pitch their tents all around her.Each will pasture his own portion.
Hebrew Names Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
King James Version
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
English Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.
New American Standard Bible
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.
New Century Version
Shepherds with their flocks will come against Jerusalem. They will set up their tents all around her, each shepherd taking care of his own section."
Shepherds with their flocks will come against Jerusalem. They will set up their tents all around her, each shepherd taking care of his own section."
Amplified Bible
"Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; They will pitch their tents all around her; They will pasture, each one in his place [eating up all her rich grasses].
"Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; They will pitch their tents all around her; They will pasture, each one in his place [eating up all her rich grasses].
World English Bible
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The pastors with their flockes shall come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes rounde about by her, & euery one shal feede in his place.
The pastors with their flockes shall come vnto her: they shall pitche their tentes rounde about by her, & euery one shal feede in his place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her;They will pitch their tents around her;They will pasture each in his place.
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her;They will pitch their tents around her;They will pasture each in his place.
Berean Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:
Contemporary English Version
then let their flocks eat all the grass.
then let their flocks eat all the grass.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shepherds advance on her with their flocks; all around her they pitch their tents, each grazing his own plot of pasture.
Shepherds advance on her with their flocks; all around her they pitch their tents, each grazing his own plot of pasture.
Darby Translation
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Easy-to-Read Version
Enemy shepherds will surround you with all their flocks. They will set up their tents all around you, and each one will let his sheep eat the grass.
Enemy shepherds will surround you with all their flocks. They will set up their tents all around you, and each one will let his sheep eat the grass.
George Lamsa Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Good News Translation
kings will camp there with their armies. They will pitch their tents around the city, and each of them will camp wherever they want.
kings will camp there with their armies. They will pitch their tents around the city, and each of them will camp wherever they want.
Lexham English Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his portion.
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his portion.
Literal Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around. They shall each one feed in his hand.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents on her all around. They shall each one feed in his hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their tentes shal they pitch rounde aboute her, and euery one shal fede with his honde.
Their tentes shal they pitch rounde aboute her, and euery one shal fede with his honde.
American Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Bible in Basic English
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
King James Version (1611)
The shepheards with their flocks shall come vnto her: they shall pitch their tents against her round about: they shall feede, euery one in his place.
The shepheards with their flocks shall come vnto her: they shall pitch their tents against her round about: they shall feede, euery one in his place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their tentes shall they pitche rounde about her, and euery one shall feede in his place.
Their tentes shall they pitche rounde about her, and euery one shall feede in his place.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.
The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.
English Revised Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Scheepherdis and her flockis schulen come to it; thei han piyt tentis in it in cumpas; ech man schal feede hem, that ben vndur his hond.
Scheepherdis and her flockis schulen come to it; thei han piyt tentis in it in cumpas; ech man schal feede hem, that ben vndur his hond.
Update Bible Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Webster's Bible Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.
New English Translation
Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.
Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.
New King James Version
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place."
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place."
New Living Translation
Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city. Each chooses a place for his troops to devour.
Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city. Each chooses a place for his troops to devour.
New Life Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her. They will set up their tents around her and feed their flocks there, each in his place.
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her. They will set up their tents around her and feed their flocks there, each in his place.
New Revised Standard
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, all in their places.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, all in their places.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.
Against her, shall come shepherds with their flocks; They have pitched against her their tents, round about, They tend their flocks every one near at hand.
Revised Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
Young's Literal Translation
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each [in] his own station.
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each [in] his own station.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.
"Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.
Contextual Overview
1 Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand. 4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer. 5 Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses. 6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her. 7 As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shepherds: Nahum 3:18
they shall: Jeremiah 4:16, Jeremiah 4:17, Jeremiah 39:1-3, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:10-12, 2 Kings 25:1-4, Luke 19:43
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 12:10 - pastors Jeremiah 52:4 - pitched Lamentations 1:17 - commanded Lamentations 4:5 - that did
Cross-References
Genesis 6:1
And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:13
He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.
Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16
Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Genesis 6:18
And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Numbers 11:17
That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
That I may come down and speak with thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to them, that they may bear with thee the burden of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened alone.
Nehemiah 9:30
And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.
And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Psalms 78:39
(77-39) And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
(77-39) And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her,.... Kings and their armies, as the Targum paraphrases it; kings and generals are compared to shepherds, and their armies to flocks, who are under their command and direction; here they design Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with his generals and armies, who should come up against Jerusalem, as to a good pasture:
they shall pitch their tents against her round about; their military tents, in allusion to pastoral ones. The phrase is expressive of the Chaldean army surrounding and besieging Jerusalem:
they shall feed everyone in his place; where he is ordered and fixed by his head general: or, "everyone shall feed his hand" p: the sheep of his hand; see Psalms 95:7, "them that are under his hand", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; who are committed to his care and charge. The meaning is, he shall direct the company or companies of soldiers under him, where to be, and what part to take in the siege; or "with his hand", as the Septuagint, with the skilfulness of his hands,
Psalms 78:72, or with might and power; or "at his hand", as the Arabic version; what is at hand, what is nearest to him; or according to his will and pleasure. The Targum is,
"everyone shall help his neighbour.''
The sense, according to Kimchi, is, one king or general shall lay siege against a city, or against cities, and so another, until they have consumed and subdued the whole land.
p רעו איש את ידו "paverunt unusquisque manum suam", Montanus; "eos qui sub manu sua sunt", V. L.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To it shall come “shepherds with their flocks:”
They have pitched upon it “their tents round about:”
They have pastured each his hand, “i. e., side.”
The pasture is so abundant that each feeds his flock, i. e., plunders Jerusalem, at the side of his own tent.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 6:3. The shepherds with their flocks — The chiefs and their battalions. The invading army is about to spoil and waste all the fertile fields round about the city, while engaged in the siege.
