Jeremiah 23:1-8

The Righteous Branch

1 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD.
2 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the LORD.
3 “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number.
4 I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the LORD.
5 “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up for David[a] a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.
6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior.
7 “So then, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when people will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’
8 but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”

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Cross References 21

  • 1. Jeremiah 10:21; Jeremiah 12:10; Jeremiah 25:36; Ezekiel 34:1-10; Zechariah 10:2; Zechariah 11:15-17
  • 2. S Isaiah 56:11
  • 3. Psalms 100:3; S Jeremiah 13:17; Ezekiel 34:31
  • 4. John 10:8
  • 5. S Jeremiah 10:21; Jeremiah 13:20
  • 6. Jeremiah 21:12; Ezekiel 34:8-10
  • 7. Isaiah 11:10-12; Jeremiah 32:37; Ezekiel 34:11-16
  • 8. S 1 Kings 8:48
  • 9. S Genesis 48:15; S Isaiah 31:4; Jeremiah 3:15; Jeremiah 31:10; Ezekiel 34:23
  • 10. Jeremiah 30:10; Jeremiah 46:27-28
  • 11. S John 6:39
  • 12. S 2 Kings 19:26; S Isaiah 4:2; Ezekiel 17:22
  • 13. S Matthew 2:2
  • 14. Isaiah 9:7; S Matthew 1:1
  • 15. S Genesis 18:19; Isaiah 11:1; Zechariah 6:12
  • 16. S Leviticus 25:18; S Deuteronomy 32:8; Hosea 2:18
  • 17. Exodus 23:21; Jeremiah 33:16; Matthew 1:21-23
  • 18. S Ezra 9:15; S Isaiah 42:6; Romans 3:21-22; S 1 Corinthians 1:30
  • 19. Jeremiah 30:3
  • 20. S Deuteronomy 15:15; Jeremiah 16:14
  • 21. S Isaiah 14:1; S Isaiah 43:5-6; Jeremiah 30:10; Ezekiel 20:42; Ezekiel 34:13; Amos 9:14-15

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "up from David’s line"
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