Ezekiel 34:17-23

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁷ What about you, my flock? This is what the Lord God says. I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats. ¹⁸ Isn’t it enough for you that you feed on the good pasture? Must you trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? Isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you muddy the rest with your feet? ¹⁹ Then my flock has to feed on what your feet have trampled and drink what your feet have muddied. ²⁰ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them. I myself am going to judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. ²¹ Because you have shoved them with your side and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns, until you scattered them abroad, ²² I will save my flock so that they will not become plunder anymore. In this way I will judge between one sheep and another.

²³ Then I will raise up over them one shepherd, and he will tend them. My servant David will tend them, and he will be their shepherd.