Ezekiel 34

Prophecy against the Shepherds of Israel

1 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, prophesy against the ashepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to
Lit them, the shepherds
those shepherds, ‘This is what the Lord
Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
God says: “Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been
Lit pasturing, pasture
,
efeeding themselves! Should the shepherds not
Lit pasturing, pasture
,
gfeed the flock?
3You heat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you islaughter the fat sheep
Lit you do not pasture
without feeding the flock.
4Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, kthe broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you lsearched for the lost; but with force and with violence you have
Or ruled
dominated them.
5They nscattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became ofood for every animal of the field and scattered. 6My flock pstrayed through all the mountains and on every high hill; qMy flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was rno one to search or seek for them.”’”

7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “certainly, because My flock has become splunder, and My flock has become food for all the animals of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock, 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am tagainst the shepherds, and I will demand My
Or flock
sheep
Lit from their hand
from them and make them wstop tending sheep. So the shepherds will not
Lit pasture, and so throughout the ch
feed themselves anymore, but I will ysave My sheep from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them.”’”

The Restoration of Israel

11 For the Lord God says this: “Behold, I Myself will zsearch for My sheep and look after them. 12 aaAs a shepherd cares for his flock on a day when he is among his scattered
Or flock
sheep, so I will accare for My
Or flock
sheep and will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a aecloudy and gloomy day.
13I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will affeed them on the mountains of Israel, by the agstreams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. 14I will feed them in a ahgood pasture, and their grazing place will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down in a good grazing place and feed in
Lit fat
,
ajrich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
15I Myself will akfeed My flock and I Myself will
Lit let them lie down
lead them to rest,” declares the Lord God.
16“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen the sick; but the amfat and the strong I will eliminate. I will anfeed them with judgment.

17 “As for you, My flock, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am going to aojudge between one
Or lamb
sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.
18Is it too aqlittle a thing for you to feed in the good pasture, that you must trample with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or too little for you to drink the clear waters, that you must muddy the rest with your feet? 19But as for My flock, they must eat what you trample with your feet, and drink what you muddy with your feet!’”

20 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them: “Behold, I, I Myself will also judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21Since you push away with your side and shoulder, and argore all the
Or sick
weak with your horns until you have scattered them
Lit to the outside
abroad,
22therefore, I will ausave My flock, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

23 “Then I will avappoint over them one awshepherd, My servant axDavid, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd. 24And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant ayDavid will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.

25 “And I will make a azcovenant of peace with them and baeliminate harmful animals from the land, so that they may bblive securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26I will make them and the places around My hill a bcblessing. And I will make bdshowers fall in their season; they will be showers of beblessing. 27Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its produce, and they will be bfsecure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have bgbroken the bars of their yoke and have saved them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28They will no longer be plunder to the nations, and the animals of the earth will not devour them; but they will bhlive securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29I will establish for them a birenowned planting place, and they will bjnot again be
Lit those gathered
victims of famine in the land, and they will not blendure the insults of the nations anymore.
30Then they will know that bmI, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,” declares the Lord God. 31“As for you, My bnsheep,
As in MT; LXX you are sheep of My flock, and
the bpsheep of My pasture, you are mankind, and I am your God,” declares the Lord God.

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