Jeremiah 6:3
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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.

shepherds.

Nahum 3:18 Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of Assyria, thy princes shall be buried: thy people are hid in the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

they shall.

Jeremiah 4:16,17 Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that guards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Juda. . . .

Jeremiah 39:1-3 In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it. . . .

2 Kings 24:2,10-12 And the Lord sent against him the rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he had spoken by his servants, the prophets. . . .

2 Kings 25:1-4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. . . .

Luke 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,

Context
Jerusalem's Final Warning
2I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman. 3The 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.4Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.…
Cross References
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,

2 Kings 25:1
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it.

Jeremiah 4:17
They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 12:10
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a desolate wilderness.

Lexicon
Shepherds
רֹעִ֖ים (rō·‘îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 5739: An arrangement, muster

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

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

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

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

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

each
אִ֥ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 3027: A hand


Additional Translations
Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion: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 with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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