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34 : 1 The word of theLordcame to me:
34 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the LordGod:Ah, shepherds of Israelwho have been feeding yourselves!Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
34 : 3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool,you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
34 : 4 The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed,the injured you have not bound up,the strayed you have not brought back,the lost you have not sought, and with force andharshness you have ruled them.
34 : 5 So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, andthey became food for all the wild beasts.
34 : 6 My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth,with none to search or seek for them.
34 : 7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of theLord:
34 : 8 As I live, declares the LordGod, surely becausemy sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,
34 : 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of theLord:
34 : 10 Thus says the LordGod,Behold, I am against the shepherds, andI will require my sheep at their hand andput a stop to their feeding the sheep.No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves.I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
34 : 11 For thus says the LordGod:Behold, I, Imyself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.
34 : 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered ona day of clouds andthick darkness.
34 : 13 And I will bring them out from the peoplesand gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them onthe mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
34 : 14 I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land.There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
34 : 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep,and I myself will make them lie down, declares the LordGod.
34 : 16 I will seek the lost,and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, andthe fat and the strong I will destroy.I will feed them in justice.
34 : 17 As for you, my flock, thus says the LordGod:Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams andmale goats.
34 : 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink ofclear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet?
34 : 19 And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?
34 : 20 Therefore, thus says the LordGodto them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
34 : 21 Because you push with side and shoulder, andthrust at all theweak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
34 : 22 I will rescuemy flock;they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
34 : 23 AndI will set up over them one shepherd,my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
34 : 24 AndI, theLord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them.I am theLord; I have spoken.
34 : 25 I will make with them a covenant of peace andbanish wild beasts from the land,so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
34 : 26 And I will make them and the places all around my hilla blessing, andI will send down the showers in their season; they shall beshowers of blessing.
34 : 27 And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase,and they shall be secure in their land. Andthey shall know that I am theLord, whenI break the bars of their yoke, anddeliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
34 : 28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations,nor shall the beasts of the land devour them.They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
34 : 29 And I will provide for themrenowned plantations so thatthey shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longersuffer the reproach of the nations.
34 : 30 And they shall know thatI am theLordtheir God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the LordGod.
34 : 31 And you are my sheep,human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the LordGod.