¹¹For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep and will sort them out.^* ¹²As shepherds sort out their flocks when they are among scattered sheep,^m so I will sort out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.^* ¹³I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land.^* ¹⁴I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.^* ¹⁵I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God. ¹⁶I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.^*

¹⁷As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats:^* ¹⁸Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture? When you drink of clear water, must you foul the rest with your feet? ¹⁹And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet and drink what you have fouled with your feet?

²⁰Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹Because you pushed with flank and shoulder and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, ²²I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged, and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

²³I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them; he shall feed them and be their shepherd.^* ²⁴And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.^*

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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.

Footnotes

mCn: Heb their scattered sheep

Cross references

*Ezek 11:17; 20:41
*Ezek 30:3; Joel 2:2; Jn 10:16
*Isa 30:25; 65:9, 10; Jer 23:3; Ezek 37:22
*Ps 23:1, 2; Ezek 20:40; 28:25, 26
*Isa 49:26; Lk 5:32
*Ezek 20:37, 38; Zech 10:3; Mt 25:32, 33
*Isa 40:11; Jer 23:4, 5; 30:9; Hos 3:5
*Ezek 36:28; 37:24, 25, 27; Hos 3:5