Ezekiel 34:11-31

11For thus says Adonai Elohim: “Here I am! I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

12As a shepherd seeks out his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will seek out My sheep. I will rescue them out of all the places where they have been scattered, on a day of cloud and thick darkness.

13I will bring them out from the peoples. I will gather them from the countries. I will bring them back to their own land. I will shepherd them upon the mountains of Israel, by the streams and in all the habitable places of the land.

14I will shepherd them in a good pasture—their grazing place will be on the high mountains of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground. They will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

15I will tend My flock and make them lie down”—it is a declaration of Adonai.

16“I will seek the lost, bring back the stray, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. But the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will tend them with justice.

17As for you, My flock”—thus says Adonai Elohim—“behold, I will judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.

18Was it too little for you that you were feeding in the good pasture? Must you trample down the rest of your pastures with your feet? You were drinking clear water. Must you muddy the rest with your feet?

19Yet My sheep must eat what you have trampled with your feet and drink what you have muddied with your feet!”

20Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim to them: “Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

21Because you thrust with your side and with shoulder and gore all the weak with your horns, until you have scattered them all over,

22I will save My flock. They will no longer be prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.

23So I will set up One Shepherd over them, My servant David—He will tend them, He will feed them Himself and be their shepherd.

24I, Adonai, will be their God, and My servant David will be Prince among them. I, Adonai, have spoken.

25“I will make a covenant of shalom with them. I will remove the evil beasts from the land, so they may dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will cause the rain to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

27The tree of the field will yield its fruit. The ground will yield its produce. They will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Adonai, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

28They will no longer be prey to the nations. The beast of the earth will not devour them. They will live in security. No one will make them afraid.

29I will make their agriculture renowned. They will no longer be consumed with hunger in the land. They will no longer bear the scorn of the nations.

30They will know that I, Adonai their God, am with them. They, the house of Israel, are My people.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

31“So you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are human, and I am your God.” It is a declaration of Adonai Elohim.