| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Jer 10:21 | Strong Concordance | For the pastors [07462] are become brutish [01197], and have not sought [01875] the LORD [03068]: therefore they shall not prosper [07919], and all their flocks [04830] shall be scattered [06327]. |
| King James | For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| pastors--the rulers, civil and religious. This verse gives the cause of the impending calamity. |