Parallel Verses
NET Bible
I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom.
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 "Come back to me, my wayward sons," says the Lord, "for I am your true master. If you do, I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion. 15 I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight. 16 In those days, your population will greatly increase in the land. At that time," says the Lord, "people will no longer talk about having the ark that contains the Lord's covenant with us. They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more!
Cross References
Acts 20:28
Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
Jeremiah 23:4
I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the Lord, promise it!
Ezekiel 34:23
I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them -- namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12
It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
John 10:1-5
"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 21:15-17
Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."
1 Samuel 13:14
But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out for himself a man who is loyal to him and the Lord has appointed him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you."
Proverbs 10:21
The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
Isaiah 30:20-21
The sovereign master will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.
Ezekiel 37:24
"'My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.
Micah 5:4-5
He will assume his post and shepherd the people by the Lord's strength, by the sovereign authority of the Lord his God. They will live securely, for at that time he will be honored even in the distant regions of the earth.
Luke 12:42
The Lord replied, "Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his household servants, to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?
1 Corinthians 2:6
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
1 Corinthians 2:12-13
Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.
Hebrews 5:12-14
For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
1 Peter 5:1-4
So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you: