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Jeremiah 23:4
I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the exiled remnant of Israel through Jeremiah, immediately following His promise to gather them back to their pasture and restore their numbers.
The words — The Hebrew רֹעִים (ro'im, "shepherds") and יִֽירְא֨וּ (yi.re'u, "they will be afraid") anchor the verse’s literal promise of divinely appointed leaders and the cessation of terror.
The thread — This restoration pattern runs to God’s pledge to reclaim faithless children as their master (Jeremiah 3:14), the apostolic command to shepherd the gathered flock (Acts 20:28), and the subsequent promise of a righteous Davidic ruler (Jeremiah 23:5).
Why it lands — The text states that God will supply both leadership and security, requiring readers to acknowledge that human stability depends entirely on His intervention.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 3:14 “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
- 1 Peter 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Acts 20:28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- Numbers 31:49 and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.
- Psalms 78:70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Isaiah 11:11 On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- Jeremiah 30:10 As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 31:10 Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
- Jeremiah 33:26 then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
- Jeremiah 46:27 But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.