Ezekiel 34:17-24

The Lord God Will Seek Them Out

17 "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: i Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and j male goats. 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 k clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? 19 And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

20 "Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you push with side and shoulder, and l thrust at all the m weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, 22 I will rescue 1 my flock; n they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 And o I will set up over them one shepherd, p my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And q I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. r I am the Lord; I have spoken.

  1. Cross References
    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.
    Ezekiel 34:22
    I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
    Ezekiel 20:38
    I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
    Matthew 25:32 - 33
    Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
  2. Cross References
    Zechariah 10:3
    My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 32:14
    Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord God.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 33:17
    A firstborn bull - he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
    Daniel 8:4
    I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 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 and harshness you have ruled them.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 34:8
    As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my 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.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:22
    And I will make them one nation in the land, on...
    Ezekiel 37:24
    My servant David shall be king over them, and t...
    Jeremiah 23:4 - 5
    I will set shepherds over them who will care fo...
    Micah 5:4
    And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in th...
    Micah 7:14
    Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock...
    Ezekiel 34:15
    I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and ...
    John 10:11
    I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays ...
    John 10:16
    And I have other sheep that are not of this fol...
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:24 - 25
    My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
    2 Samuel 5:2
    In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'
    Psalms 78:71 - 72
    From following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
  9. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:27
    My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
    Exodus 29:45
    I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God.
    Leviticus 26:12
    And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 17:24
    And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord ; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord ; I have spoken, and I will do it.
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