Ezekiel 34:11–24

Yahweh Will Shepherd His Flock

¹¹For thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I Myself will ^aseek My sheep and care for them.

¹²“^aAs a shepherd ¹cares for his herd in the day when he is among his ²sheep which are spread out, so I will ^3bcare for My ⁴sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a ^ccloudy and gloomy day.

¹³“I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will ^ashepherd them on the mountains of Israel, by the ^bstreams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

¹⁴“I will shepherd them in a ^agood pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and be shepherded in ^1brich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁵“I will ^ashepherd My flock, and I will make them lie down,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶“I will search for the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen the sick; but the ^afat and the strong I will destroy. I will ^bshepherd them with judgment.

¹⁷“As for you, My flock, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will ^ajudge between one ¹sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

¹⁸‘Is it too ^aslight a thing for you that you should be shepherded in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must ¹foul the rest with your feet?

¹⁹‘As for My flock, they must be shepherded on what you tread down with your feet and drink what you ¹foul with your feet!’”

²⁰Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh to them, “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

²¹“Because you push with side and with shoulder, and ^athrust at all the sickly with your horns until you have scattered them ¹abroad,

²²therefore, I will ^asave My flock, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

²³“Then I will ^aestablish over them one ^bshepherd, My servant ^cDavid, and he will shepherd them; he will shepherd them himself and be their shepherd.

²⁴“And I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant ^aDavid will be prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken.