Ezekiel 34:5
And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.
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Ezekiel 34:5
And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.
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2 Samuel 24:17
And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.
Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.
Psalms 74:1
Maschil. Of Asaph. Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
Psalms 78:70
He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;
Psalms 78:71
From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.
Jeremiah 25:36
A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.
Ezekiel 34:16
I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.
Ezekiel 34:24
And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.
Ezekiel 34:31
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.
John 10:3
The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.
John 10:11
I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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1 Kings 18:22
Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I, am the only living prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 22:6
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?
1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
2 Chronicles 18:17
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good to me, but of evil?
Acts 16:9
And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.
Revelation 11:2
But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.
Revelation 11:3
And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
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2 Chronicles 18:33
And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.
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2 Chronicles 18:34
But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king of Israel was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans till the evening; and by sundown he was dead.
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Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Jeremiah 50:7
They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
Matthew 10:5
These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria,
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.
Acts 3:26
To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.
Romans 15:8
Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,
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Job 6:15
My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
Job 6:16
Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;
Job 6:17
Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.
Job 6:18
The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.
Job 6:19
The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:
Job 6:20
They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.
Job 6:21
So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.
Job 6:22
Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?
Job 19:13
He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.
Job 19:14
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
Job 19:15
I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
Job 19:16
At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
Psalms 69:20
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
Psalms 88:18
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
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Psalms 78:72
So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.
John 10:1
Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.
John 10:8
All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.
John 21:15
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
Acts 20:28
Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
1 Timothy 4:15
Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.
1 Timothy 4:16
Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,
1 Peter 5:1
I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you:
1 Peter 5:4
And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.
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Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
Jeremiah 5:30
A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 22:22
All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.
Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:12
For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:13
And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.
Jeremiah 23:14
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:15
So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
Lamentations 1:19
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
Zechariah 10:3
My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.
Zechariah 11:6
For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.
Zechariah 11:7
So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.
Zechariah 11:9
And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.
Zechariah 13:8
And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.
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Jeremiah 12:7
I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
Jeremiah 12:8
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 12:12
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Ezekiel 33:28
And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.
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Jeremiah 49:32
And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 33:21
Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.
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Song of Solomon 1:7
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
Ezekiel 34:25
And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.
Ezekiel 34:28
And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them.
Ezekiel 46:18
And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.
Joel 3:2
I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.
John 10:2
He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep.
Acts 20:29
I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
Acts 20:30
And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.
Acts 20:31
So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
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Daniel 8:3
And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last.
Daniel 8:4
I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.
Daniel 8:5
And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes.
Daniel 8:6
And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power.
Daniel 8:7
And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power.
Daniel 8:8
And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven.
Daniel 8:9
And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.
Daniel 8:10
And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet.
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Zechariah 10:6
And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.
Zechariah 11:13
And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.
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Mark 1:13
And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.
Luke 10:19
See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.
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Matthew 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.
Matthew 9:38
Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
Luke 10:2
And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.
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Acts 7:51
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
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Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
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Acts 16:10
And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.
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Isaiah 1:27
Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
Romans 11:19
You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.
Romans 11:20
Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
Romans 11:21
For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
Romans 11:22
See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
Revelation 2:15
And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Revelation 3:1
And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.
Revelation 3:2
Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.
Revelation 3:3
Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
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Romans 16:18
For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15
So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
Philippians 2:21
For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
2 Peter 2:16
But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:17
These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.
2 Peter 2:18
For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
2 Peter 2:19
Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
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Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;
Titus 1:7
For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
Titus 1:11
By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.
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