Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom.
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."
American Standard Version
and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
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.
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 O ye shrinking children, turn again, sayeth the LORD: and I will be married with you. For I will take one out of the city, and two out of one generation from among you, and bring you out of Zion: 15 and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom. 16 Moreover, when ye be increased and multiplied in the land, then, sayeth the LORD, there shall no more boast be made of the ark of the LORD's Covenant: No man shall think upon it, neither shall any man make mention of it: for from thenceforth it shall neither be visited, nor honored with gifts.
Cross References
Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, whereof the holy ghost hath made you overseers: to rule the congregation of God, which he hath purchased with his blood.
Jeremiah 23:4
I will set shepherds also over them, which shall feed them. They shall no more fear and dread, for there shall none of them be lost, sayeth the LORD.
Ezekiel 34:23
I will raise up to them one only shepherd: even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I could not speak unto you brethren as unto spiritual: but as unto carnal, even as it were unto babes in Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12
And the very same, made some Apostles, some Prophets, some Evangelists, some Shepherds, some Teachers:
John 10:1-5
Verily, verily I say unto you, He that entereth not in by the door, into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way: the same is a thief and a robber.
John 21:15-17
When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord, thou knowest, that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my lambs."
1 Samuel 13:14
But now thy kingdom shall not continue. The LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and hath commanded him to be a captain over his people: because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee."
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed a whole multitude; but fools shall die in their own folly.
Isaiah 30:20-21
And though the LORD giveth you the bread of adversity, and the water of trouble, thine instructor flyeth not far from thee; if thine eyes look unto thine instructor,
Ezekiel 37:24
David my servant shall be their king, and they all shall have one shepherd only. They shall walk in my laws, and my commandments shall they both keep and fulfill.
Micah 5:4-5
He shall stand fast, and give food in the strength of the LORD, and in the victory of the name of the LORD his God: and when they be converted, he shall be magnified unto the farthest parts of the world.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, "If there be any faithful servant, and wise, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their duty of meat, at due season:
1 Corinthians 2:6
That we speak of is wisdom among them that are perfect - not the wisdom of this world, neither of the rulers of this world, which goeth to nought -
1 Corinthians 2:12-13
And we have not received the spirit of the world: but the spirit which cometh of God, for to know the things that are given to us of God,
Hebrews 5:12-14
For when as concerning the time, ye ought to be teachers, yet have ye need again that we teach you the first principles of the word of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat:
1 Peter 2:2
and as newborn babes desire that reasonable milk which is without corruption, that ye may be grown therein.
1 Peter 5:1-4
The elders which are among you I exhort, which am also an elder and a witness of the afflictions of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be opened: