New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 34:9-16

9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am 1against the shepherds, and I will demand My 2sheep 3from them and make them 4cease from feeding 5sheep. So the shepherds will not 6feed themselves anymore, but I will 7deliver My flock from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them.”’”

11For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I Myself will 8search for My sheep and seek them out. 12 9As a shepherd 10cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered 11sheep, so I will 12 13care for My 14sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a 15cloudy and gloomy day. 13I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will 16feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the 17streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. 14I will feed them in a 18good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in 19 20rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15I will 21feed My flock and I will 22lead them to rest,” declares the Lord God. 16“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the 23fat and the strong I will destroy. I will 24feed them with judgment.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 34:10 Jer 21:13; Ezek 5:8; 13:8; 34:2; Zech 10:3 ↩
2. Ezekiel 34:10 Or (a) flock ↩
3. Ezekiel 34:10 Lit from their hand ↩
4. Ezekiel 34:10 1 Sam 2:29, 30; Jer 52:24-27 ↩
5. Ezekiel 34:10 Or (a) flock ↩
6. Ezekiel 34:10 Lit pasture, and so throughout the ch ↩
7. Ezekiel 34:10 Ps 72:12-14; Ezek 13:23 ↩
8. Ezekiel 34:11 Ezek 11:17; 20:41 ↩
9. Ezekiel 34:12 Jer 31:10 ↩
10. Ezekiel 34:12 Or seek(s) out ↩
11. Ezekiel 34:12 Or flock ↩
12. Ezekiel 34:12 Or seek(s) out ↩
13. Ezekiel 34:12 Is 40:11; 56:8; Jer 23:3; 31:8; Luke 19:10; John 10:16 ↩
14. Ezekiel 34:12 Or flock ↩
15. Ezekiel 34:12 Jer 13:16; Ezek 30:3; Joel 2:2 ↩
16. Ezekiel 34:13 Ezek 34:23; 36:29, 30; Mic 7:14 ↩
17. Ezekiel 34:13 Is 30:25 ↩
18. Ezekiel 34:14 Ps 23:2; Jer 31:12-14, 25; John 10:9 ↩
19. Ezekiel 34:14 Lit fat ↩
20. Ezekiel 34:14 Ezek 28:25, 26; 36:29, 30 ↩
21. Ezekiel 34:15 Ps 23:1, 2; Ezek 34:23 ↩
22. Ezekiel 34:15 Lit cause them to lie down ↩
23. Ezekiel 34:16 Is 10:16 ↩
24. Ezekiel 34:16 Is 49:26 ↩

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