Ezekiel 34:7

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:

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:

Bible in Basic English
For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

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:

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 Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah: ⁸ I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, If not, because of My flock being for a prey, Yea, My flock is for food to every beast of the field, Because there is no shepherd, And My shepherds have not sought My flock, And the shepherds do feed themselves, And My flock they have not fed. ⁹ Therefore, O shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah: ¹⁰ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food. ¹¹ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I -- even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out. ¹² As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness. ¹³ And brought them out from the peoples, And have gathered them from the lands, And brought them unto their own ground, And have fed them on mountains of Israel, By streams, and by all dwellings of the land. ¹⁴ With good pasture I do feed them, And on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation, There do they lie down in a good habitation, And fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel. ¹⁵ I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ¹⁶ The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

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
and Abimelech calleth for Abraham, and saith to him, `What hast thou done to us? and what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought upon me, and upon my kingdom, a great sin? works which are not done thou hast done with me.'

Genesis 34:5
And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.

Genesis 34:6
And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;

Genesis 34:12
multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

Genesis 34:13
And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),

Genesis 34:22
`Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;

Genesis 34:25
And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;

Genesis 46:7
his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, yea, all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.

Leviticus 4:2
`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, When a person doth sin through ignorance against any of the commands of Jehovah [regarding things] which are not to be done, and hath done [something] against one of these --

Leviticus 4:13
`And if the whole company of Israel err ignorantly, and the thing hath been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [something against] one of all the commands of Jehovah [concerning things] which are not to be done, and have been guilty;

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.