Shepherds and Mount Zion

[FONT=&quot]Shepherds and Mount Zion[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Isaiah 31:4[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is what the Lord says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Isaiah 56:11[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 3:15[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 6:3[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Shepherds with their flocks will come against her;[/FONT][FONT=&quot] they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 10:21[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the Lord; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 12:10[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my (pleasant field / the earth) into a desolate wasteland.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 22:22[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 23:1[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 23:2[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]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.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 23:4[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]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.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 25:34[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 25:35[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The shepherds will have nowhere to flee, the leaders of the flock no place to escape.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 25:36[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the Lord is destroying their pasture.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 50:6[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ezekiel 34:2[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ezekiel 34:7[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ezekiel 34:8[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ezekiel 34:9[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ezekiel 34:10[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Amos 1:2[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He said: “The Lord roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Micah 5:5[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And he will be our peace when the Assyrians invade our land and march through our fortresses. We will raise against them seven shepherds, even eight commanders,[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zechariah 10:3[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord Almighty will care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zechariah 11:3[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Listen to the wail of the shepherds; their rich pastures are destroyed! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined![/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zechariah 11:4[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is what the Lord my God says: “Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zechariah 11:5[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the Lord, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Zechariah 11:8[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Acts 20:28[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Peter 5:2[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Be shepherds of God’s flock[/FONT][FONT=&quot] that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve;[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jude 1:12[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]These people are blemishes at your feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Revelation 1:19-20.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
“Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. The mystery of the Seven Stars that you saw in my right hand and of the Seven Golden Lampsticks is this: The Seven Stars are the messengers of the Seven Congregations, and the Seven Lampsticks are the Seven Congregations.[/FONT]