Ezekiel 34:11–24

The Lord God Will Seek Them Out

¹¹“For thus says the Lord God: ^wBehold, I, I ^xmyself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. ¹²As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on ^ya day of clouds and ^zthick darkness. ¹³And I will bring them out from the peoples ^aand gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on ^bthe mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. ^14cI will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. ^dThere they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. ^15eI myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, ^dand I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. ^16fI will seek the lost, ^gand I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and ^hthe fat and the strong I will destroy.¹ I will feed them in justice.

¹⁷“As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: ⁱBehold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and ^jmale goats. ¹⁸Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of ^kclear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? ¹⁹And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

²⁰“Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹Because you push with side and shoulder, and ^lthrust at all the ^mweak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, ²²I will rescue² my flock; ⁿthey shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. ²³And ^oI will set up over them one shepherd, ^pmy servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. ²⁴And ^qI, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. ^rI am the Lord; I have spoken.