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Ezekiel 34 📜 📕 ↷
A Prophecy against Israel's Shepherds
1 And the word of our Lord was made to me saying:📜💬📚
2 Son of man prophesy of the Pastors of Israel: prophesy, and thou shalt say to the Pastors: Thus saith our Lord God: Woe to the Pastors of Israel, which fed themselves: are not the flocks fed of the Pastors?📜💬📚
3 You did eat the milk, & were covered with the wool, & that which was fat ye killed: but my flock you fed not.📜💬📚
4 That which was weak, you strengthened not: and that which was sick, you healed not: that which was broken, you bound not up: and that which was cast away, you brought not again: and that which was lost, you sought not: but with austerity you did rule over them, and with might.📜💬📚
5 And my sheep were dispersed, because there was no Pastor: & they came to be devoured of all the beasts of the field, and were dispersed.📜💬📚
6 My flocks have wandered in all mountains, and in every high hill: and upon all the face of the earth were my flocks dispersed, and there was none that sought them, there was none, I say, that sought them.📜💬📚
7 Therefore ye shepherds hear the word of our Lord:📜💬📚
8 Live I saith our Lord God: that for as much as my flocks have been made a spoil: & my sheep to be devoured of all the beasts of the field, because there was no Pastor (for my Pastors did not seek my flock, but the Pastors fed themselves, & my flocks they fed not:)📜💬📚
9 therefore ye Pastors hear the word of our Lord:📜💬📚
10 Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I my self upon the shepherds, I will require my flock of their hand, and I will make them cease, that they feed my flock no more, & that the Pastors feed no more themselves: and I will deliver my flock out of their mouth, and it shall no more be meat for them.📜💬📚
Good Shepherd
11 Because thus saith our Lord God: Behold I my self will seek my sheep, and will visit them.📜💬📚
12 As the Pastor visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep which were scattered: so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places, wherein they had been dispersed in the day of the cloud and of darkness.📜💬📚
13 And I will bring them out of the peoples, and will gather them out of the lands, and will bring them into their own land: and I will feed them in the mountains of Israel, in the rivers, and in all the seats of the land.📜💬📚
14 In the most plentiful pastures will I feed them, & in the high mountains of Israel shall be their pastures: there shall they rest on the green grass, and in fat pastures they shall be fed upon the mountains of Israel.📜💬📚
15 I will feed my sheep, & I will make them lie, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
16 That which was lost, I will seek: & that which was cast away, I will bring again: & that which was broken I will bind up: & that which was weak, I will strengthen: & that which was fat & strong, I will keep: & will feed them in judgement.📜💬📚
17 And you my flocks, thus saith our Lord God: Behold I judge between beast & beast, of rams, & of buck goats.📜💬📚
18 Was it not enough for you to feed upon good pastures? You have besides also trodden down with your feet the residue of your pastures: and when you drank most pure water, the rest you troubled with your feet.📜💬📚
19 And my sheep were fed with those things, which were trodden with your feet: and what your feet had troubled, that did they drink.📜💬📚
20 Therefore thus saith our Lord God to you: Behold, I myself do judge between the fat beast & the lean.📜💬📚
21 For that you with sides & shoulders did thrust, and with your horns struck all the weak beasts, till they were dispersed abroad:📜💬📚
22 I will save my flock, & it shall be no more into spoil, & I will judge between beast and beast.📜💬📚
23 AND I WILL RAISE UP OVER THEM ONE PASTOR: who shall feed them, my servant David: he shall feed them, & he shall be their Pastor.📜💬📚
24 And I, the Lord will be their God: & my servant David the Prince in the midst of them: I, the Lord have spoken.📜💬📚
Covenant of Peace
25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will make the most cruel beasts to cease out of the land: & they that dwell in the desert, shall sleep secure in the forests.📜💬📚
26 And I will put them round about my hill a blessing: and I will bring down the showers in his time, there shall be rains of blessing.📜💬📚
27 And the tree of the field shall give his fruit, and the earth shall give her spring, and they shall be in their land without fear: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have broken the chains of their yoke, and shall have delivered them out of the hand of those that rule over them.📜💬📚
28 And they shall be no more for a spoil in the Gentiles, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them: but they shall dwell confidently without any terror.📜💬📚
29 And I will raise up unto them a bud of name: and they shall be no more diminished for famine in the land, neither shall they bear any more the reproach of the Gentiles.📜💬📚
30 And they shall know that I, the Lord their God with them, and they my people the house of Israel: saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
31 And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and I, the Lord your God, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚
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