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For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
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The Root of Bad Leadership
Commentators agree the "shepherds" or "pastors" refer to Israel's leaders—kings, officials, priests, and prophets. Their core failure was spiritual: they became "brutish" or unthinking because they "have not inquired of the Lord." This failure to seek God for counsel and wisdom was the root cause of the nation's crisis.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy ([Reference Jere…
19th Century
Anglican
The pastors. —The “shepherds,” used, as in Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 3:15, and elsewhere, of rulers generally, rather than…
Baptist
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. Be…
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16th Century
Protestant
In the first place, he assigns a cause for the dreadful devastation of which he had spoken, and that was because the shepherds were without thought…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the pastors are become brutish The "kings" of Judah, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, as Jehoiakim and Zedekia…
The Jews who continued in their own land felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that …
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13th Century
Catholic
