Ezekiel 34:4-6

Prophecy Against the Shepherds of Israel

⁴ _d "The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor _e sought what was lost; but with _f force and ₁ cruelty you have ruled them. ⁵ _g "So they were _h scattered because there was no shepherd; _i and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. ⁶ "My sheep _j wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them."

1. Cross References
   Zechariah 11:16
   For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 9:36
   But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
   Matthew 10:16
   Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
   Matthew 18:12
   What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?
   Matthew 18:13
   And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
   Luke 15:4
   What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
   
3. Cross References
   1 Peter 5:3
   Nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
   
4. Cross References
   Ezekiel 33:21
   And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been captured!
   
5. Cross References
   Numbers 27:17
   "who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd."
   1 Kings 22:17
   Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These have no master. Let each return to his house in peace.'
   Jeremiah 10:21
   For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be scattered.
   Matthew 9:36
   But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
   Mark 6:34
   And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So He began to teach them many things.
   
6. Cross References
   Isaiah 56:9
   All you beasts of the field, come to devour, All you beasts in the forest.
   Jeremiah 12:9
   My heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture; The vultures all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour!
   
7. Cross References
   Jeremiah 40:11
   Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab, among the Ammonites, in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.
   Jeremiah 40:12
   Then all the Jews returned out of all places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in abundance.
   Jeremiah 50:6
   My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray; They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.
   Ezekiel 7:16
   Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity.
   1 Peter 2:25
   For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.