³Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.^* ⁴I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall no longer fear or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord.^*

The Righteous Branch of David

⁵The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.^* ⁶In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”^*

⁷Therefore the days are surely coming, says the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, “As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,”^* ⁸but “As the Lord lives who brought out and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where he^x had driven them.” Then they shall live in their own land.

Read in Logos

Jeremiah 23:5: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.”

Footnotes

xGk: Heb I

Cross references

*Isa 11:11–16; Jer 32:37; Ezek 34:13–16
*Jer 3:15; 30:10; Ezek 34:23; Jn 6:39; 10:28
*Isa 4:2; 9:7; 11:1; 53:2; Jer 33:14–16; Zech 3:8; 6:12; Lk 1:32, 33
*Deut 33:28; Isa 7:14; 9:6; Jer 33:16; Zech 14:11; Mt 1:21–23; Rom 3:22; 1 Cor 1:30
*Isa 43:18, 19; Jer 16:14, 15