Jeremías 23:2

2 Por lo tanto, esto dice el Señor
, Dios de Israel, a los pastores: «En vez de cuidar de mis ovejas y ponerlas a salvo, las han abandonado y las han llevado a la destrucción. Ahora, yo derramaré juicio sobre ustedes por la maldad que han hecho a mi rebaño;

Jeremías 23:2 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel
The covenant God of that people, who are Called his sheep, and the sheep of his pasture; having made a covenant with their fathers, and provided a good pasture for them, the land of Israel, where they enjoyed all blessings, civil and religious, and appointed persons over them to feed them; but these did not do their duty, and therefore the Lord was against them, as follows: against the pastors that feed my people;
whose office it was to feed, rule, and defend them; and who pretended to do it, but did it not; ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited
them;
they had been the means of their being driven out of their dwellings, and out of their own land, and of their being among the nations of the world, and took no care for the return of them, any more than they concerned themselves for their welfare when over them; or they suffered the enemy, like beasts of prey, to come in among them, which scattered them, and drove them from their pasture, as sheep are by bears, dogs, and wolves; and took no care to preserve them from them, or to gather them together again to their pasture. The people of the Jews, at the time when Christ came, hereafter prophesied of, were scattered as sheep without a shepherd, and are called the lost sheep of the house of Israel, ( Matthew 9:36 ) ( 10:6 ) ( 15:24 ) ; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord;
that is, punish them for their iniquities; since they visited not the flock in a way of mercy and kindness, as the duty of their office required, the Lord would visit them in a way of justice, and punish them according to their deserts.

Jeremías 23:2 In-Context

1 El descendiente justo
»¡Qué aflicción les espera a los líderes de mi pueblo —los pastores de mis ovejas— porque han destruido y esparcido precisamente a las ovejas que debían cuidar!», dice el Señor
.

2 Por lo tanto, esto dice el Señor
, Dios de Israel, a los pastores: «En vez de cuidar de mis ovejas y ponerlas a salvo, las han abandonado y las han llevado a la destrucción. Ahora, yo derramaré juicio sobre ustedes por la maldad que han hecho a mi rebaño;

3 pero reuniré al remanente de mi rebaño de todos los países donde lo he expulsado. Volveré a traer a mis ovejas a su redil y serán fructíferas y crecerán en número.

4 Entonces nombraré pastores responsables que cuidarán de ellas, y nunca más tendrán temor. Ni una sola se perderá ni se extraviará. ¡Yo, el Señor
, he hablado!

5 »Pues se acerca la hora
—dice el Señor
—,
cuando levantaré a un descendiente justo
del linaje del rey David.
Él será un rey que gobernará con sabiduría;
hará lo justo y lo correcto por toda la tierra.