Ezekiel 34:17-22

The Voice

¹⁷ As for you, My flock, this is what the Eternal Lord has to say: “Watch carefully! I will judge between one sheep and another, between rams and male goats.” ¹⁸ Are you not satisfied grazing in blooming pastures, feasting off rich mountain lands? Do you have to trample all of the pastures with your feet? Are you not satisfied drinking out of clear mountain streams? Do you have to muddy all of the mountain streams with your feet? ¹⁹ Why should the rest of My flock have to graze on trampled pastures and drink from muddied streams because of your careless feet?

²⁰ So this is what the Eternal Lord has to say to them: “Watch carefully! I will personally judge between the fat sheep and the skinny sheep.” ²¹ Because you fat sheep bully the weak, push them around, and threaten them with your horns until you scatter them to distant mountains, ²² I will step in and save them. I will rescue them, and they will no longer be hunted and hassled. I will judge between one sheep and another.