¹¹“ ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheepⁱ and look after them. ¹²As a shepherd^j looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.^k ¹³I will bring them out from the nations and gather^l them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.^m I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.ⁿ ¹⁴I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel^o will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture^p on the mountains of Israel.^q ¹⁵I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down,^r declares the Sovereign Lord.^s ¹⁶I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up^t the injured and strengthen the weak,^u but the sleek and the strong I will destroy.^v I will shepherd the flock with justice.^w

¹⁷“ ‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats.^x ¹⁸Is it not enough^y for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet?^z Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? ¹⁹Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

²⁰“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.^a ²¹Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns^b until you have driven them away, ²²I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.^c ²³I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend^d them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.^e ²⁴I the Lord will be their God,^f and my servant David^g will be prince among them.^h I the Lord have spoken.ⁱ

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Ezekiel 34:11: ...For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

Cross references

iSee Ps 119:176
j Isa 40:11; See Jer 31:10; Zec 10:3; Lk 19:10
kSee Eze 32:7
lSee Ge 48:21; See Dt 30:4
mSee Isa 66:20; See Jer 23:8; See Eze 11:17; Mic 4:6
n Jer 23:3; See Jer 50:19; See Eze 28:25; 36:24
oSee Eze 20:40
p Ps 23:2; See 37:3
qSee Isa 65:10; Eze 36:29–30; 37:22; Am 9:14; Mic 7:14
r Zep 3:13
s Ps 23:1–2; See Jer 33:12; Mic 5:4
tSee Ps 147:3
u Mic 4:6; Zep 3:19
v Lk 19:10
w Isa 10:16; See Jer 31:8; Lk 5:32
x Mt 25:32–33
ySee Ge 30:15
zSee Eze 32:2
a Mt 25:32
bSee Dt 33:17
c Ps 72:12–14; Jer 23:2–3; Eze 20:37–38
d Isa 40:11
eSee Isa 31:4; Mic 5:4
f Eze 36:28
g Ps 89:49
hSee Isa 53:4; Zec 13:7
i Jer 23:4–5; See 30:9; See 33:14; Jn 10:16; Rev 7:17