Quotes About Shepherds

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.

Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWoe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?

Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!í

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.í

He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

“My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts attends to His flock, the house of Judah; He will make them like His royal steed in battle.

Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ëBlessed be the LORD, for I am rich!í Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, which was just as the angel had told them.