These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezekiel 34
Tanakh 31 verses
- 1 And the of came unto me, saying:
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Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of , prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds: Thus saith : Woe unto the shepherds of that have fed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
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Jeremiah 23:1 Jeremiah 3:15 Isaiah 40:11 Luke 20:46-47 John 21:15-17 Jeremiah 10:21 Psalm 78:71-72 Ezekiel 13:19 Ezekiel 34:8-10 Jeremiah 12:10 Jeremiah 2:8 1 Peter 5:2-4 Acts 20:29 2 Peter 2:3 Romans 16:18 Zechariah 11:17 John 10:11-12 Acts 20:26 Matthew 24:48-51 Micah 3:11-12 Zephaniah 3:3-4 Luke 12:42-46 John 10:1-2 Micah 3:1-3 2 Samuel 5:2 Ezekiel 33:24 - 3 Ye did eat the fat, and ye clothed you with the wool, ye killed the fatlings; but ye fed not the sheep.
- 4 The weak have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force have ye ruled over them and with rigour.
- 5 So were they scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
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My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill, yea, upon all the of the earth were My sheep scattered, and there was none that did search or seek.
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- 7 Therefore, ye shepherds, the of :
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As I live, saith , surely forasmuch as My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did My shepherds search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not My sheep;
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- 9 therefore, ye shepherds, the of :
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Thus saith : 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.
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Ezekiel 13:8 Ezekiel 34:2 Zechariah 10:3 Jeremiah 21:13 Hebrews 13:17 Ezekiel 3:18 Ezekiel 5:8 Ezekiel 34:8 Jeremiah 52:24-27 Psalm 72:12-14 Ezekiel 3:20 Psalm 23:5 Ezekiel 21:3 Ezekiel 33:6-8 1 Peter 3:12 Ezekiel 34:22 Jeremiah 50:31 Jeremiah 39:6 Psalm 102:19-20 Jeremiah 52:9-11 Nahum 2:13 1 Samuel 2:29-36 Jeremiah 13:18-20 Ezekiel 35:3 - 11 For thus saith : Behold, here am I, and I will search for My sheep, and seek them out.
- 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are separated, so will I seek out My sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the day of clouds and thick darkness.
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And I 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 upon the mountains of , by the streams, and in all the habitable places of the country.
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Ezekiel 28:25-26 Ezekiel 11:17 Isaiah 11:11-16 Psalm 106:47 Isaiah 65:9-10 Jeremiah 23:3-4 Jeremiah 32:37 Zephaniah 3:19-20 Jeremiah 31:8 Amos 9:14 Ezekiel 39:27 Micah 7:14-15 Ezekiel 37:21-22 Ezekiel 38:8 Ezekiel 20:41 Isaiah 66:19-20 Jeremiah 30:3 Jeremiah 30:18 Ezekiel 36:24 Jeremiah 23:8 Ezekiel 34:18-25 - 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of shall their fold be; there shall they lie down in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of .
- 15 I will feed My sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith .
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I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy, I will feed them in justice.
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And as for you, O My flock, thus saith : Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, even the rams and the he-goats.
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- 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
- 19 And as for My sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
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Therefore thus saith unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and the lean cattle.
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Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
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therefore will I My flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
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- 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
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And I will be their , and My prince among them; I have spoken.
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Ezekiel 36:28 Ezekiel 37:27 Jeremiah 32:38 Ezekiel 34:30-31 Isaiah 43:2-3 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Joshua 5:13-15 Matthew 28:18 Jeremiah 30:9 Acts 5:31 Ephesians 1:21-22 Luke 1:31-33 Zechariah 13:9 Isaiah 9:6-7 Revelation 21:3 Jeremiah 31:1 Jeremiah 31:33 1 Corinthians 15:25 Revelation 19:13-16 Ezekiel 39:22 Exodus 29:45-46 Micah 5:2 Hebrews 2:9-10 Ezekiel 37:23 Philippians 2:9-11 Psalm 2:6 Jeremiah 33:15-17 - 25 And I will make with them a of , and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
- 26 And I will make them and the places round about My hill a ; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of .
- 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield her produce, and they shall be safe in their land; and they shall that I am , when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.
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And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beast of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
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- 29 And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.
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And they shall that I their am with them, and that they, the house of , are My people, saith .
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- 31 And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your , saith .’