Ezekiel 34

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?Cross-references: 2Sam 5:2 · Ps 78:71 · Isa 40:11 · Jer 2:8 · Jer 3:15 · Jer 10:21 · +20 more

3You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:13 · 2Ki 21:16 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 56:11 · Jer 2:30 · +10 more

4You 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 that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.Cross-references: Ex 1:13 · Isa 56:10 · Jer 8:22 · Jer 22:13 · Ezek 34:16 · Zech 11:15 · +12 more

5They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.Cross-references: Num 27:17 · 1Ki 22:17 · 2Chr 18:16 · Isa 56:9 · Jer 12:9 · Jer 23:2 · +12 more

6My 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 searched or sought.”Cross-references: Ps 142:4 · Jer 5:1 · Jer 13:16 · Jer 40:11 · Ezek 7:16 · John 10:16 · +2 more

7“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word:Cross-references: Ps 82:1 · Isa 1:10 · Jer 13:13 · Jer 13:18 · Jer 22:2 · Ezek 34:9 · +4 more

8“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep,Cross-references: Ezek 34:2 · Ezek 34:5 · Ezek 34:10 · Ezek 34:18 · Ezek 34:31 · Acts 20:33 · +3 more

9therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word!”

10The Lord Yahweh 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 shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”Cross-references: 1Sam 2:29 · Ps 23:5 · Ps 72:12 · Ps 102:19 · Jer 13:18 · Jer 21:13 · +18 more

11“‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.Cross-references: Gen 6:17 · Lev 26:28 · Deut 32:39 · Ps 23:1 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 119:176 · +13 more

12As 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 out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:34 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 50:10 · Jer 13:16 · Jer 31:10 · Ezek 30:3 · +7 more

13I 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 of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.Cross-references: Ps 106:47 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 65:9 · Isa 66:19 · Jer 23:3 · Jer 23:8 · +15 more

14I 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 will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.Cross-references: Ps 23:1 · Ps 31:8 · Isa 25:6 · Isa 30:23 · Isa 40:11 · Jer 31:12 · +6 more

15I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 23:1 · Song 1:7 · Isa 11:6 · Isa 27:10 · Isa 65:9 · Jer 3:15 · +4 more

16“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 which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Isa 5:17 · Isa 10:16 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 49:26 · Isa 61:1 · +16 more

17“As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.Cross-references: Ezek 20:37 · Ezek 34:20 · Zech 10:3 · Matt 25:32

18Does 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 drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?Cross-references: Gen 30:15 · Num 16:9 · Num 16:13 · 2Sam 7:19 · Isa 7:13 · Ezek 16:20 · +7 more

19As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’

20“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.Cross-references: Ps 22:12 · Ezek 34:10 · Ezek 34:17 · Matt 25:31

21Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad,Cross-references: Deut 33:17 · Ezek 34:3 · Dan 8:3 · Zech 11:5 · Zech 11:16 · Luke 13:14

22therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.Cross-references: Ps 72:12 · Jer 23:2 · Ezek 34:10 · Zech 11:7

23I 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.Cross-references: Eccl 12:11 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 55:3 · Jer 23:4 · Jer 30:9 · +9 more

24I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.Cross-references: Ex 29:45 · Josh 5:13 · Ps 2:6 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 43:2 · Jer 23:5 · +21 more

25“‘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 sleep in the woods.Cross-references: Lev 26:6 · Job 5:22 · Ps 4:8 · Isa 11:6 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 55:3 · +8 more

26I 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.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Lev 26:4 · Deut 11:13 · Deut 28:12 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 68:9 · +14 more

27The 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 am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.Cross-references: Lev 26:4 · Lev 26:13 · Ps 85:12 · Ps 92:12 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 9:4 · +14 more

28They 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 afraid.Cross-references: Jer 30:10 · Jer 46:27 · Ezek 34:8 · Ezek 34:25 · Ezek 34:29 · Ezek 36:4 · +2 more

29I 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 more.Cross-references: Ps 72:17 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 49:9 · Isa 53:2 · +11 more

30They will know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 46:7 · Ps 46:11 · Isa 8:9 · Ezek 14:11 · Ezek 16:62 · Ezek 34:24 · +3 more

31You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”Cross-references: Ps 78:52 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 95:7 · Ps 100:3 · Isa 40:11 · Jer 23:1 · +9 more