Ezekiel Chapter 34

• Ezekiel 34:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 34:2
  The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 34:3
  “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israe...
• Ezekiel 34:4
  You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.
• Ezekiel 34:5
  You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back th...
• Ezekiel 34:6
  They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
• Ezekiel 34:7
  My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who...
• Ezekiel 34:8
  “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word:
• Ezekiel 34:9
  “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no...
• Ezekiel 34:10
  therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word!”
• Ezekiel 34:11
  The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The she...
• Ezekiel 34:12
  “‘For the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
• Ezekiel 34:13
  As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them ou...
• Ezekiel 34:14
  I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains...
• Ezekiel 34:15
  I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They wil...
• Ezekiel 34:16
  I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 34:17
  “I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that whi...
• Ezekiel 34:18
  “As for you, O my flock, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
• Ezekiel 34:19
  Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have dru...
• Ezekiel 34:20
  As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’
• Ezekiel 34:21
  “Therefore the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
• Ezekiel 34:22
  Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad,
• Ezekiel 34:23
  therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.
• Ezekiel 34:24
  I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.
• Ezekiel 34:25
  I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken it.
• Ezekiel 34:26
  “‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness and slee...
• Ezekiel 34:27
  I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.
• Ezekiel 34:28
  The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I a...
• Ezekiel 34:29
  They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them...
• Ezekiel 34:30
  I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any ...
• Ezekiel 34:31
  They will know that I, the LORD, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 34:32
  You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD.”