The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:8 (NIV)

as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food
for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:9 (NIV)

therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:10 (NIV)
this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:11 (NIV)
‘“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:12 (NIV)
As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:13 (NIV)
I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.
I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:14 (NIV)
I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land.
There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

 

[Chester]

Ezekiel 34:15 ESV

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:16 (CSB)

I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong.
I will shepherd them with justice.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:17 (CSB)

“‘As for you, my flock, the Lord God says this: Look, I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and goats.

 

[Isny]

Ezekiel 34:18 (KJV)

SEEMETH 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?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:19 (NIV)

Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:20 (NIV)

‘“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: see, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:21 (NIV)

Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them away,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:22 (NIV)

I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:23 (NIV)

I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:24 (NIV)

I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:25 (NIV)

‘“I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep
in the forests in safety.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:26 (NIV)

I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:27 (NIV)

The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that
I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.