New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 34:17-31

17“As for you, My flock, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Behold, I am going to 1judge between one 2sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats. 18Is it too 3little 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 4gore all the 5weak with your horns until you have scattered them 6abroad, 22therefore, I will 7save My flock, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

23“Then I will 8appoint over them one 9shepherd, My servant 10David, 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 11David will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.

25“And I will make a 12covenant of peace with them and 13eliminate harmful animals from the land, so that they may 14live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26I will make them and the places around My hill a 15blessing. And I will make 16showers fall in their season; they will be showers of 17blessing. 27Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its produce, and they will be 18secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have 19broken 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 20live securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29I will establish for them a 21renowned planting place, and they will 22not again be 23victims of famine in the land, and they will not 24endure the insults of the nations anymore. 30Then they will know that 25I, 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 26sheep, 27the 28sheep of My pasture, you are mankind, and I am your God,” declares the Lord God.

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 34:17 Ezek 20:38; 34:20-22; Mal 4:1; Matt 25:32 ↩
2. Ezekiel 34:17 Or lamb ↩
3. Ezekiel 34:18 Num 16:9, 13; 2 Sam 7:19; Is 7:13 ↩
4. Ezekiel 34:21 Deut 33:17; Dan 8:4; Luke 13:14-16 ↩
5. Ezekiel 34:21 Or sick ↩
6. Ezekiel 34:21 Lit to the outside ↩
7. Ezekiel 34:22 Ps 72:12-14; Jer 23:3; Ezek 34:10 ↩
8. Ezekiel 34:23 Rev 7:17 ↩
9. Ezekiel 34:23 Is 40:11; John 10:11 ↩
10. Ezekiel 34:23 Jer 30:9; Ezek 37:24 ↩
11. Ezekiel 34:24 Is 55:3; Jer 30:9; Ezek 37:24, 25; Hos 3:5 ↩
12. Ezekiel 34:25 Ezek 16:60; 20:37; 37:26 ↩
13. Ezekiel 34:25 Job 5:22, 23; Is 11:6-9 ↩
14. Ezekiel 34:25 Jer 33:16; Ezek 28:26; 34:27, 28 ↩
15. Ezekiel 34:26 Gen 12:2; Ezek 34:14 ↩
16. Ezekiel 34:26 Deut 11:13-15; 28:12 ↩
17. Ezekiel 34:26 Lev 25:21; Is 44:3 ↩
18. Ezekiel 34:27 Ezek 38:8, 11 ↩
19. Ezekiel 34:27 Lev 26:13; Is 52:2, 3; Jer 30:8 ↩
20. Ezekiel 34:28 Jer 30:10; Ezek 39:26 ↩
21. Ezekiel 34:29 Is 4:2; 60:21; 61:3 ↩
22. Ezekiel 34:29 Ezek 34:26, 27; 36:29 ↩
23. Ezekiel 34:29 Lit those gathered ↩
24. Ezekiel 34:29 Ezek 36:6, 15 ↩
25. Ezekiel 34:30 Ps 46:7, 11; Ezek 14:11; 36:28 ↩
26. Ezekiel 34:31 Ps 78:52; 80:1; Ezek 36:38 ↩
27. Ezekiel 34:31 As in MT; LXX you are sheep of My flock, and ↩
28. Ezekiel 34:31 Ps 100:3; Jer 23:1 ↩

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