New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 34:11-23

11For the Lord God says this: “Behold, I Myself will 1search for My sheep and look after them. 12 2As a shepherd cares for his flock on a day when he is among his scattered 3sheep, so I will 4care for My 5sheep and will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a 6cloudy 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 7feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the 8streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. 14I will feed them in a 9good pasture, and their grazing place will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down in a good grazing place and feed in 10 11rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15I Myself will 12feed My flock and I Myself will 13lead 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 14fat and the strong I will eliminate. I will 15feed them with judgment.

17“As for you, My flock, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am going to 16judge between one 17sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats. 18Is it too 18little a thing for you to feed in the good pasture, that you must trample with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or too little for you to drink the clear waters, that you must muddy the rest with your feet? 19But as for My flock, they must eat what you trample with your feet, and drink what you muddy with your feet!’”

20Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them: “Behold, I, I Myself will also judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21Since you push away with your side and shoulder, and 19gore all the 20weak with your horns until you have scattered them 21abroad, 22therefore, I will 22save My flock, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

23“Then I will 23appoint over them one 24shepherd, My servant 25David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 34:11 Ezek 11:17; 20:41 ↩
2. Ezekiel 34:12 Jer 31:10 ↩
3. Ezekiel 34:12 Or flock ↩
4. Ezekiel 34:12 Is 40:11; 56:8; Jer 23:3; 31:8; Luke 19:10; John 10:16 ↩
5. Ezekiel 34:12 Or flock ↩
6. Ezekiel 34:12 Jer 13:16; Ezek 30:3; Joel 2:2 ↩
7. Ezekiel 34:13 Ezek 34:23; 36:29, 30; Mic 7:14 ↩
8. Ezekiel 34:13 Is 30:25 ↩
9. Ezekiel 34:14 Ps 23:2; Jer 31:12-14, 25; John 10:9 ↩
10. Ezekiel 34:14 Lit fat ↩
11. Ezekiel 34:14 Ezek 28:25, 26; 36:29, 30 ↩
12. Ezekiel 34:15 Ps 23:1, 2; Ezek 34:23 ↩
13. Ezekiel 34:15 Lit let them lie down ↩
14. Ezekiel 34:16 Is 10:16 ↩
15. Ezekiel 34:16 Is 49:26 ↩
16. Ezekiel 34:17 Ezek 20:38; 34:20-22; Mal 4:1; Matt 25:32 ↩
17. Ezekiel 34:17 Or lamb ↩
18. Ezekiel 34:18 Num 16:9, 13; 2 Sam 7:19; Is 7:13 ↩
19. Ezekiel 34:21 Deut 33:17; Dan 8:4; Luke 13:14-16 ↩
20. Ezekiel 34:21 Or sick ↩
21. Ezekiel 34:21 Lit to the outside ↩
22. Ezekiel 34:22 Ps 72:12-14; Jer 23:3; Ezek 34:10 ↩
23. Ezekiel 34:23 Rev 7:17 ↩
24. Ezekiel 34:23 Is 40:11; John 10:11 ↩
25. Ezekiel 34:23 Jer 30:9; Ezek 37:24 ↩

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