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EZEKIEL ยท Chapter 34
34:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy,
and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to
the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds
feed the flocks?
34:3 All of you eat the fat, and all of you clothe you with the wool,
all of you kill them that are fed: but all of you feed not the flock.
34:4 The diseased have all of you not strengthened, neither have all
of you healed that which was sick, neither have all of you bound up that
which was broken, neither have all of you brought again that which was
driven away, neither have all of you sought that which was lost; but with
force and with cruelty have all of you ruled them.
34:5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they
became food to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high
hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none
did search or seek after them.
34:7 Therefore, all of you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
34:8 As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a
prey, and my flock became food to every beast of the field, because there
was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
34:9 Therefore, O all of you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
34:10 Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and
I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding
the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I
will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
34:11 For thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search
my sheep, and seek them out.
34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among
his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver
them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and
dark day.
34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon
the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places
of the country.
34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains
of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and
in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
34:15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says
the Lord GOD.
34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was
driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen
that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will
feed them with judgment.
34:17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I
judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
34:18 Seems it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,
but all of you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?
and to have drunk of the deep waters, but all of you must foul the residue
with your feet?
34:19 And as for my flock, they eat that which all of you have trodden
with your feet; and they drink that which all of you have fouled with your
feet.
34:20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I,
will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
34:21 Because all of you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and
pushed all the diseased with your horns, till all of you have scattered
them abroad;
34:22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey;
and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
34:24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince
among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in
the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing;
and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be
showers of blessing.
34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth
shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall
know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and
delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall
the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none
shall make them afraid.
34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall
be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of
the heathen any more.
34:30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them,
and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD.
34:31 And all of you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and
I am your God, says the Lord GOD.
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