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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {34:2} Son of man,
prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them,
even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the shepherds of
Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
{34:3} You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you
kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. {34:4} You haven't
strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was
sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have
you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought
that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over
them. {34:5} They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and
they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
{34:6} My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high
hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth;
and there was none who searched or sought. {34:7} Therefore, you
shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: {34:8} As I live, says the Lord
GOD, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food
to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd,
neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; {34:9} therefore, you shepherds,
hear the word of the LORD: {34:10} Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I
am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand,
and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the
shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from
their mouth, that they may not be food for them. {34:11} For thus says
the Lord GOD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and
will seek them out. {34:12} As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the
day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I
seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where
they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. {34:13} 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 watercourses, and in all the inhabited
places of the country. {34:14} I will feed them with good pasture; and
on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there
shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed
on the mountains of Israel. {34:15} I myself will be the shepherd of
my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord GOD.
{34:16} I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that
which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and
will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will
destroy; I will feed them in justice. {34:17} As for you, O my flock,
thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the
rams and the male goats. {34:18} Does it seem a small thing to you to
have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet
the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters,
but you must foul the residue with your feet? {34:19} As for my sheep,
they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink
that which you have fouled with your feet. {34:20} Therefore thus says
the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat
sheep and the lean sheep. {34:21} Because you thrust with side and
with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you
have scattered them abroad; {34:22} therefore will I save my flock,
and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and
sheep. {34:23} 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. {34:24} I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David
prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken it. {34:25} I will make
with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease
out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and
sleep in the woods. {34:26} I will make them and the places around my
hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its
season; there shall be showers of blessing. {34:27} The tree of the
field shall yield its 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 have broken the bars of their yoke, and have
delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
{34:28} They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the
animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and
none shall make them afraid. {34:29} I will raise up to them a
plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine
in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. {34:30}
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. {34:31}
You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,
says the Lord GOD.
{35:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {35:2} Son
of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
{35:3} and tell it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you,
Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will
make you a desolation and an astonishment. {35:4} I will lay your
cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am
the LORD. {35:5} Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have
given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the
time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; {35:6}
therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood,
and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore
blood shall pursue you. {35:7} Thus will I make Mount Seir an
astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who
passes through and him who returns. {35:8} I will fill its mountains
with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your
watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword. {35:9} I
will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be
inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD. {35:10} Because you
have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine,
and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: {35:11} therefore,
as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according to your anger, and
according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against
them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
{35:12} You shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults
which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They
are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour. {35:13} You have
magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard it. {35:14} Thus says the Lord
GOD: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. {35:15}
As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because
it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount
Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
{36:1} You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and
say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. {36:2} Thus
says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and,
The ancient high places are ours in possession; {36:3} therefore
prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because, even because they
have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you
might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken
up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; {36:4}
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD:
Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the
watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the
cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the
residue of the nations that are all around; {36:5} therefore thus says
the Lord GOD: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against
the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed
my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their
heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. {36:6}
Therefore prophesy concerning Eretz-Israel, and tell the mountains and
to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the
Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath,
because you have borne the shame of the nations: {36:7} therefore thus
says the Lord GOD: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are
around you, they shall bear their shame. {36:8} But you, mountains of
Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to
my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. {36:9} For, behold, I
am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and
sown; {36:10} and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste
places shall be built; {36:11} and I will multiply on you man and
animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you
to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you]
than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
{36:12} Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and
you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children. {36:13} Thus
says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men,
and have been a bereaver of your nation; {36:14} therefore you shall
devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the
Lord GOD; {36:15} neither will I let you hear any more the shame of
the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any
more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says
the Lord GOD. {36:16} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying, {36:17} Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their
own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way
before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. {36:18}
Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had
poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their
idols; {36:19} and I scattered them among the nations, and they were
dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them. {36:20} When they came to the nations,
where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them,
These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
{36:21} But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the nations, where they went. {36:22} Therefore
tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: I don't do [this]
for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have
profaned among the nations, where you went. {36:23} I will sanctify my
great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have
profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the
LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before
their eyes. {36:24} For I will take you from among the nations, and
gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own
land. {36:25} I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be
clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I
cleanse you. {36:26} I will also give you a new heart, and I will put
a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of
your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. {36:27} I will put
my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you
shall keep my ordinances, and do them. {36:28} You shall dwell in the
land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I
will be your God. {36:29} I will save you from all your uncleanness:
and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine
on you. {36:30} I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the
increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of
famine among the nations. {36:31} Then you shall remember your evil
ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe
yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations. {36:32} Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord
GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
house of Israel. {36:33} Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day that I
cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be
inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. {36:34} The land that
was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight
of all who passed by. {36:35} They shall say, This land that was
desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and
desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. {36:36} Then
the nations that are left around you shall know that I, the LORD, have
built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, the
LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it. {36:37} Thus says the Lord
GOD: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel,
to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. {36:38}
As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed
feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
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