Ezek 34
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And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, even
to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord YHWH: Woe to the shepherds of Israel that do
feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
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You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you
feed not the sheep.
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The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick,
neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that
which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force
and with rigor have you ruled over them.
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And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all
the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
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My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep
were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search
or seek [after them].
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Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of YHWH:
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As I live, says the Lord YHWH, surely seeing that as my sheep became a prey, and my
sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither
did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my sheep;
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therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of YHWH:
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Thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my
sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall
the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth,
that they may not be food for them.
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For thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and
will seek them out.
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As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered
abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where
they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
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And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and
will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel,
by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
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I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel
shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture
shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
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I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says
the Lord YHWH.
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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 the
fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
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And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I judge between sheep
and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.
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Seems it a small thing to you to have fed upon 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 you must foul the residue with your feet?
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And 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.
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Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the
fat sheep and the lean sheep.
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Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your
horns, till you have scattered them abroad;
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therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge
between sheep and sheep.
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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.
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And I, YHWH, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, YHWH, have
spoken it.
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And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease
out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the
woods.
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And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause
the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
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And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase,
and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am YHWH, when I
have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those
that made bondmen of them.
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And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth
devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
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And I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed
with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.
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And they shall know that I, YHWH, their God am with them, and that they, the house
of Israel, are my people, says the Lord YHWH.
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And you my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord
YHWH.