Ezekiel 34:3

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Summary

Ezekiel 34:3

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

Eat

Isaiah 56:11

Zechariah 11:5

Ye kill

Bible References

Eat

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

those buying them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them.

Ye kill

And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey. It ate men.

A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.

So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?

And there came in two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones so that he died.

And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Hear the Word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Law of our God, people of Gomorrah.

In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.