rsv Ezekiel:34:10-31
rsv@Ezekiel:34:10 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and put 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.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:11 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:12 @ As a shepherd seeks out his flock when some of his sheep have been scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:13 @ 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 on the mountains of Israel, by the fountains, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:14 @ I will feed them with good pasture, and upon the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:15 @ I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:16 @ I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the crippled, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will watch over; I will feed them in justice.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:17 @ "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, rams and he-goats.
rsv@Ezekiel: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 of clear water, that you must foul the rest with your feet?
rsv@Ezekiel:34:19 @ And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have fouled with your feet?
rsv@Ezekiel:34:20 @ "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
rsv@Ezekiel:34:22 @ I will save my flock, they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:23 @ And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:24 @ And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:25 @ "I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:26 @ And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
rsv@Ezekiel: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; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
rsv@Ezekiel: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.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:29 @ And I will provide for them prosperous plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:30 @ And they shall know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:34:31 @ And you are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD."