UYeremiya 23:1

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

1 Yeha ke, abalusi abatshabalalisa bachithachithe umhlambi wedlelo lam! utsho uYehova.

Bible Verse Review
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Woe: Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 2:26, Ezekiel 13:3, Ezekiel 34:2, Zechariah 11:17, Matthew 23:13-29, Luke 11:42-52

pastors: Jeremiah 23:2, Jeremiah 23:11-15, Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 12:10, Jeremiah 22:22, Jeremiah 25:34-36, Jeremiah 50:6, Isaiah 56:9-12, Ezekiel 22:25-29, Ezekiel 34:2-10, Ezekiel 34:21, Micah 3:11, Micah 3:12, Zephaniah 3:3, Zephaniah 3:4, Zechariah 11:5-7, Zechariah 11:15-17, Matthew 9:36, Matthew 15:14, John 10:10, John 10:12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:17 - as sheep 2 Chronicles 18:16 - as sheep Psalms 74:1 - the sheep Jeremiah 50:17 - a scattered Zechariah 10:3 - anger Acts 20:29 - not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe be unto the pastors,.... Or, "O ye shepherds" or "governors", as the Targum; the civil rulers and magistrates, kings and princes of the land of Israel; since ecclesiastical rulers, the priests and prophets, are mentioned as distinct from them in Jeremiah 23:9; whose business it was to rule and guide, protect and defend, the people: but, instead of that, they were such

that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord God; set them bad examples, led them into idolatry and other sins, which were the cause of their ruin, and of their being carried captive, and scattered in other countries; and their sin was the more aggravated, inasmuch as these people were the Lord's pasture sheep, whom he had an interest in, and a regard unto, and had committed them to the care and charge of these pastors or governors, to be particularly taken care of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The pastors - shepherds, i. e., civil rulers Jeremiah 2:8.

The sheep of My pasture - literally, of My pasturing, the sheep of whom I am shepherd. The people do not belong to the rulers but to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIII

Sequel of the discourse which commenced in the preceding

chapter. The prophet denounces vengeance against the pastors of

Israel who have scattered and destroyed the flock of the Lord,

1, 2.

He concludes with gracious promises of deliverance from the

Babylonish captivity, and of better times under the Messiah,

when the converts to Christianity, who are the true Israel of

God, shadowed forth by the old dispensation, shall be

delivered, by the glorious light of the Gospel, from worse than

Chaldean bondage, from the captivity of sin and death. But this

prophecy will not have its fullest accomplishment till that

period arrives which is fixed in the Divine counsel for the

restoration of Israel and Judah from their various dispersions,

of which their deliverance from the Chaldean domination was a

type, when Jesus the Christ, the righteous Branch, the Root and

Offspring of David, and the only legitimate Heir to the throne,

shall take unto himself his great power, and reign gloriously

over the whole house of Jacob, 3-8.

At the ninth verse a new discourse commences. Jeremiah

expresses his horror at the great wickedness of the priests and

prophets of Judah, and declares that the Divine vengeance is

hanging over them. He exhorts the people not to listen to their

false promises, 9-22;

and predicts the utter ruin that shall fall upon all pretenders

to inspiration, 23-32,

as well as upon all scoffers at true prophecy, 33-40.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII

Verse Jeremiah 23:1. Wo be unto the pastors — There shall a curse fall on the kings, princes, priests, and prophets; who, by their vicious conduct and example, have brought desolation upon the people.