Jeremiah 13:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?”
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“Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where <FI>is<Fi> the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 13:20 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 14:28A large population is a king’s splendor, but a lack of subjects is a prince’s ruin.
- Isaiah 56:9Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
- Jeremiah 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
- Jeremiah 6:22This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
- Jeremiah 10:22Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- Jeremiah 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
- Jeremiah 23:2Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 34:7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
- Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans— that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
- Zechariah 11:16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
- John 10:12The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
- Acts 20:26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
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