Ezekiel 34:11-31

11For the Lord God says this: “Behold, I Myself will 1search for My sheep and look after them. 122As 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 1011rich 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. 24And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant 26David will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.

25“And I will make a 27covenant of peace with them and 28eliminate harmful animals from the land, so that they may 29live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26I will make them and the places around My hill a 30blessing. And I will make 31showers fall in their season; they will be showers of 32blessing. 27Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its produce, and they will be 33secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have 34broken the bars of their yoke and have saved them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28They will no longer be plunder to the nations, and the animals of the earth will not devour them; but they will 35live securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29I will establish for them a 36renowned planting place, and they will 37not again be 38victims of famine in the land, and they will not 39endure the insults of the nations anymore. 30Then they will know that 40I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,” declares the Lord God. 31“As for you, My 41sheep, 42the 43sheep of My pasture, you are mankind, and I am your God,” declares the Lord God.