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Ezekiel Chapter 34

¹The word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, ²Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?

³You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

⁴You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed what was sick, neither have you bound up what was broken, neither have you brought back what was driven away, neither have you sought what was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

⁵They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

⁶My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

⁷Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of ForeverOne: ⁸As I live, says LordOfMine ForeverOne, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; ⁹therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of ForeverOne: ¹⁰Thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

¹¹For thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

¹²As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

¹³I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

¹⁴I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁵I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.

¹⁶I will seek what was lost, and will bring back what was driven away, and will bind up what was broken, and will strengthen what was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

¹⁷As for you, O my flock, thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

¹⁸Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

¹⁹As for my sheep, they eat what you have trodden with your feet, and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

²⁰Therefore thus says LordOfMine ForeverOne to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

²¹Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; ²²therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

²³I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

²⁴I, ForeverOne, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, ForeverOne, have spoken it.

²⁵I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

²⁶I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

²⁷The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am ForeverOne, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

²⁸They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

²⁹I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

³⁰They shall know that I, ForeverOne, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.

³¹You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says LordOfMine ForeverOne.