1And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?[ † ]Jeremiah 23:1Ezekiel 22:25Micah 3:1-3, 11Zechariah 11:17 3Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.[ † ]Isaiah 56:11Zechariah 11:16Ezekiel 33:25-26Micah 3:1-3Zechariah 11:5 4The diseased 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 again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.[ † ]Zechariah 11:16Matthew 9:36Matthew 10:16Matthew 18:12-13Luke 15:41 Peter 5:3 5And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.[ † ]Ezekiel 33:21Numbers 27:171 Kings 22:17Jeremiah 10:21Matthew 9:36Mark 6:34Isaiah 56:9Jeremiah 12:9 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them .[ † ]Jeremiah 40:11-12Jeremiah 50:6Ezekiel 7:161 Peter 2:25
7Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord ; 8As I live, saith the Lord God , surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;[ † ]Ezekiel 34:5-6Ezekiel 34:2-10 9therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord ; 10thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.[ † ]Jeremiah 21:13Jeremiah 52:24-27Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 13:8Zechariah 10:3Ezekiel 3:18Hebrews 13:17Ezekiel 34:2-8Psalms 72:12-14Ezekiel 13:23
11For thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. 12As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:10Jeremiah 13:16Ezekiel 30:3Joel 2:2 13And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.[ † ]Isaiah 65:9-10Jeremiah 23:3Ezekiel 11:17Ezekiel 20:41Ezekiel 28:25Ezekiel 36:24Ezekiel 37:21-22 14I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.[ † ]Psalms 23:2Jeremiah 3:15John 10:9Jeremiah 33:12 15I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God . 16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.[ † ]Isaiah 40:11Micah 4:6Matthew 18:11Mark 2:17Luke 5:32Isaiah 10:16Amos 4:1Jeremiah 10:24
17And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.[ † ]Ezekiel 20:37Malachi 4:1Matthew 25:32 18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.[ † ]Ezekiel 34:17 21Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.[ † ]Isaiah 40:11Jeremiah 23:4-5Hosea 1:11John 10:11Hebrews 13:201 Peter 2:251 Peter 5:4Jeremiah 30:9Ezekiel 37:24Hosea 3:5 24And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it .[ † ]Exodus 29:45Ezekiel 37:25Isaiah 55:3Jeremiah 30:9Ezekiel 37:24-25Hosea 3:5
25And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.[ † ]Ezekiel 37:26Leviticus 26:6Job 5:22-23Isaiah 11:6-9Hosea 2:18Jeremiah 23:6 26And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.[ † ]Isaiah 56:7Genesis 12:2Isaiah 19:24Zechariah 8:13Leviticus 26:4Psalms 68:9 27And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord , when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.[ † ]Leviticus 26:4Psalms 85:12Isaiah 4:2Leviticus 26:13Isaiah 52:2-3Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 25:14 28And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.[ † ]Jeremiah 30:10Ezekiel 39:26 29And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.[ † ]Isaiah 11:1Ezekiel 36:29Ezekiel 36:3-6, 15 30Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God .[ † ]Ezekiel 34:24Psalms 46:7-11Ezekiel 14:11Ezekiel 36:28 31And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God .[ † ]Psalms 100:3Jeremiah 23:1John 10:11