Ezekiel 34:11–24

¹¹“For this is what the Lord God says: See, I Myself will search for My flock and look for them. ¹²As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered ^mon a cloudy and dark day. ¹³I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the land. ¹⁴I will tend them with good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁵I will tend My flock and let them lie down.” ⁿThis is the declaration of the Lord God. ¹⁶“I will seek the lost, ^obring back the strays, bandage the injured, ^pand strengthen the weak, but I will destroy ^qthe fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

¹⁷“The Lord God says to you, My flock: I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and male goats. ^r18Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? ¹⁹Yet My flock has to feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied.

²⁰“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them: See, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹Since you have pushed with flank and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns until you scattered them all over, ²²I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey for you. I will judge between one sheep and another. ²³I will appoint over them a single shepherd, My servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd. ^s24I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant David ^twill be a prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken.