Ezekiel 34:11–24

¹¹For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold I, even I, will both search for my sheep, and tend them. ¹²As a shepherd tendeth his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. ¹³And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the water-courses, and in all the habitable places of the country. ¹⁴I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed upon the mountains of Israel. ¹⁵I will myself feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah. ¹⁶I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong: I will feed them with judgment.

¹⁷And as for you, my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the he-goats. ¹⁸Is it too small a thing unto you to have eaten up the good pastures, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures; and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the rest with your feet? ¹⁹And my sheep have to eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and to drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. ²⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, it is I, and I will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad, ²²—I will save my flock, that they may no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. ²³And 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. ²⁴And I Jehovah will be their God, and my servant David a prince in their midst: I Jehovah have spoken it.