Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
New American Standard Bible
“Then I will give you
King James Version
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Holman Bible
I will give you shepherds who are loyal to Me,
International Standard Version
I'll give you shepherds after my own heart, and they'll shepherd you with knowledge and good sense."
Amplified
“Then [in the final time] I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and [true] 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.
Darby Translation
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Julia Smith Translation
And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.
King James 2000
And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.
Modern King James verseion
And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom.
NET Bible
I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.
New Heart English Bible
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
The Emphasized Bible
and will give you shepherds according to mine own heart, - who will feed you with knowledge and discretion.
Webster
And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
World English Bible
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
Themes
Jesus Christ, Deity Of » As giver of pastors to the church
Church » Compared to a flock » Ministers as under-shepherds of
Church » God provides ministers for
The church » God provides ministers for
Condescension of God » Expostulates with backsliding israel
Spiritual food » General references to
Leaders » Preaching » As shepherds to feed the flock
Ministers » Work of preaching » As shepherds to feed the flock
Ministers » Remuneration of » Shepherds
Ministers » Are bound, to » Feed the church
Names » Of ministers » Pastors
Religious » Support of unfaithful » As shepherds to feed the flock
Shepherds/pastors » What pastors are for
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Food
Titles and names of ministers » Pastors
God, Trinity » Each person in, described as » Supplying ministers to the church
Interlinear
Nathan
Ra`ah
Leb
Ra`ah
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 3:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For Repentance
14 Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 15 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more.
Cross References
Acts 20:28
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah.
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12
And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
John 10:1-5
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
John 21:15-17
So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon,'son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
1 Samuel 13:14
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah hath sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah hath appointed him to be prince over his people, because thou hast not kept that which Jehovah commanded thee.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Isaiah 30:20-21
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;
Ezekiel 37:24
And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
Micah 5:4-5
And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?
1 Corinthians 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
1 Corinthians 2:12-13
But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
Hebrews 5:12-14
For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
1 Peter 5:1-4
The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: