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Ezekiel 34

34 This word from the Eternal also came to me; 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the rulers of Israel, prophesy thus to these shepherds: ‘Here is what the Lord the Eternal says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have fed none but themselves! Ought not shepherds to feed their flock? 3 You have seized the milk, you have clothed yourselves with the wool, you have killed the fatlings, but you have not fed the flock. 4 You never put strength into the weak, you never healed the sickly, you never bandaged the cripples, you never recovered those who had been driven away, you never looked for those who were lost, and you were rough to those who were strong. 5 So my flock has been scattered because they had no shepherd, and it has been devoured by all the wild beasts. 6 My flock strayed over all the uplands and over every high hill, scattered all over the face of the earth, with none to search for them, none to look for them.’ 7 Hear, then, what the Eternal has to say to you shepherds. 8 ‘By my life!’ says the Lord the Eternal, ‘since my flock has become the prey and food of every wild animal, because there was no one to shepherd them (for the shepherds cared nothing about my flock, but fed themselves instead of feeding my flock)’-- 9 hear then what the Lord the Eternal says, you shepherds-- 10 ‘I am against the shepherds, I will demand my flock back from them, I will stop them from tending my flock; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves, I will rescue my flock from their greed, and no longer shall it be food for them.’ 11 For this is what the Lord the Eternal says: ‘I myself, I will search for my flock and look for them. 12 As a shepherd looks for his flock on the day when his sheep have been scattered, so will I search for my flock and bring them safe from all the places whither they have been scattered on a day of clouds and darkness; 13 I will gather them out of the nations and collect them from foreign lands and bring them into their own land, feeding them on the uplands of Israel, in the valleys, and in all habitable parts of the country. 14 I will feed them upon good pasture; their grazing shall be on the uplands of Israel, where they shall lie down in a good place and graze on rich pasture amid the heights of Israel. 15 I myself will tend my flock, I will take them to their pasture,’ says the Lord the Eternal. 16 ‘I will look for the lost, I will recover those who have been driven away, I will bandage the cripples, I will put strength into the sick, and I will guard the strong and prosperous, attending to them properly.

17 As for you, my flock,’ says the Lord the Eternal, ‘I will judge between the weak sheep and the rams and he-goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to graze on the good pasture? Must you trample over the rest of the pasture? Is it not enough for you to claim the clear water? Must you foul the rest of the water with your feet? 19 Are my sheep to eat what you have trampled and to drink what you have fouled?’ 20 This is what the Lord the Eternal says: ‘I myself will take action. You plump creatures, you have pushed the lean sheep away, 21 with your sides and shoulders, butting at these feeble creatures with your horns till you have scattered them abroad! 22 Now I will rescue my flock, they shall be a prey no longer, and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 Also I will place a single ruler over them, that is, my servant David, who shall feed them and be their shepherd; 24 I the Eternal will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I the Eternal proclaim this. 25 I will make a compact of peace with them, banishing wild beasts from the country, so that they may live undisturbed in the open and sleep within the woods; 26 I will settle them round my own hill, blessing them with showers of rain at the right season; 27 the trees of the field shall bear fruit, the earth shall bring forth crops, and they shall live undisturbed in the land; they shall learn that I am the Eternal, when I break their yoke of slavery and rescue them from those who made them slaves; 28 they shall no longer be the prey of the nations, wild beasts shall not devour them, they shall live undisturbed, and none shall make them afraid. 29 I will grant them a right fertile soil, so that they shall no longer be consumed by hunger in the land and taunted by the nations. 30 Then shall they learn that I the Eternal am their God, and that they, Israel, are my people,’ says the Lord the Eternal. 31 ‘You are my own flock, the flock I tend, and I am your God,’ says the Lord the Eternal.”

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