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1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 2 Son 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? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. 4 The 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. 5 And they were scat­tered, be­cause there is no shep­herd: and they be­came meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scat­tered. 6 My 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. 7 There­fore, ye shep­herds, hear the word of the LORD; 8 As 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; 9 There­fore, O ye shep­herds, hear the word of the LORD; 10 Thus 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. 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Be­hold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. 12 As 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. 13 And 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. 14 I 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. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16 I 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. 17 And 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. 18 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? 19 And 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. 20 There­fore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Be­hold, I, even I, will judge be­tween the fat cat­tle and be­tween the lean cat­tle. 21 Be­cause ye have thrust with side and with shoul­der, and pushed all the dis­eased with your horns, till ye have scat­tered them abroad; 22 There­fore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge be­tween cat­tle and cat­tle. 23 And 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. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my ser­vant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spo­ken it. 25 And 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. 26 And 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. 27 And 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. 28 And 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. 29 And 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. 30 Thus 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. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pas­ture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.