Jeremiah 6:3
New International Version
Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion.”

New Living Translation
Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city. Each chooses a place for his troops to devour.

English Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.

Berean Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

King James Bible
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

New King James Version
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place.”

New American Standard Bible
“Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture, each in his place.

NASB 1995
“Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.

NASB 1977
“Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.

Legacy Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her; They will pitch their tents around her; They will pasture each in his place.

Amplified Bible
“Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; They will pitch their tents all around her; They will pasture, each one in his place [eating up all her rich grasses].

Christian Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her. Each will pasture his own portion.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her. Each will pasture his own portion.

American Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Shepherds will come upon her and their flocks as one, and they shall pitch their tents against her in a circle, and they shall herd each man to his place

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.

Contemporary English Version
but shepherds will surround it and divided up, then let their flocks eat all the grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.

English Revised Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
With their flocks, shepherds will come to them, pitch their tents all around them, and each of them will tend his own flock.

Good News Translation
kings will camp there with their armies. They will pitch their tents around the city, and each of them will camp wherever they want.

International Standard Version
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her. They'll pitch their tents all around her, and every one will tend his flock in his own place.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; They pitch their tents against her round about; They feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.

Literal Standard Version
Shepherds and their droves come to her, | They have struck tents by her all around, | They have each fed [in] his own station.”

Majority Standard Bible
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

New American Bible
Against her, shepherds come with their flocks; all around, they pitch their tents against her; each one grazes his portion.

NET Bible
Kings will come against it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

New Revised Standard Version
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, all in their places.

New Heart English Bible
Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."

Webster's Bible Translation
The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place.

World English Bible
Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”

Young's Literal Translation
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each in his own station.

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Context
Jerusalem's Final Warning
2Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion. 3Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion: 4‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.…

Cross References
Luke 19:43
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

2 Kings 25:1
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

Jeremiah 4:17
They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.


Treasury of Scripture

The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

shepherds.

Nahum 3:18
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

they shall.

Jeremiah 4:16,17
Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah…

Jeremiah 39:1-3
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it…

2 Kings 24:2,10-12
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets…

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Jeremiah 6
1. The enemies sent against Judah,
4. encourage themselves.
6. God sets them on work because of their sins.
9. The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.
18. He proclaims God's wrath.
26. He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.














(3) Shall come unto her.--Better, Unto it (sc., the pasture) shall come shepherds with their flocks--i.e., the leaders and the armies of the invaders. The other verbs are in the past tense, the future being seen, as it were realised, They have pitched, they have pastured.

Every one in his place.--Literally, each on his hand, or perhaps, "they shall feed, each his hand," i.e., shall let it rove in plunder at will by the side of his own tent. The work of plunder was to go on everywhere. The imagery is drawn from the attack of a nomadic tribe on a richly-cultivated plain.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Shepherds
רֹעִ֖ים (rō·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

and their flocks
וְעֶדְרֵיהֶ֑ם (wə·‘eḏ·rê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5739: An arrangement, muster

will come
יָבֹ֥אוּ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

against her;
אֵלֶ֛יהָ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

they will pitch
תָּקְע֨וּ (tā·qə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8628: To clatter, slap, clang, to drive, to become bondsman

their tents
אֹהָלִים֙ (’ō·hā·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 168: A tent

all around her,
סָבִ֔יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

each
אִ֥ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

tending his own portion:
יָדֽוֹ׃ (yā·ḏōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand


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