Ezekiel 34:11-24 - The Lord God Will Seek Them Out

¹¹ "This is what the LORD says: "Watch me! I'm going to search for my flock. I'll watch over them myself. ¹² Just as a shepherd looks after his flock during the day time while he is with them, so also I'm going to watch over my sheep, delivering them from every place where they've been scattered during the times of gloom and doom. ¹³ I'm going to bring them out from foreign nations and from foreign lands. Then I'll bring them to their own land and feed them in Israel on the mountains, in their valleys, and in all of their settlements throughout the land. ¹⁴ I'll feed them in excellent pastures, and even the very heights of Israel's mountains will serve as verdant pastures for them in which they'll rest and feed yes, even on the fertile mountains of Israel! ¹⁵ I will feed my sheep and give them rest,' declares the Lord GOD. ¹⁶ "I'm going to seek both the lost as well as the scattered, and bring them both back so their broken bones can be set and the sick can be healed. But in righteousness I'll exterminate the fat and the stiff-necked.'"

¹⁷ "Now as for you, my flock, this is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm going to judge between one sheep and another, and between the rams and the goats. ¹⁸ Is it such an insignificant thing to you that you're feeding in good pastures but trampling down the other pastures with your feet? Or that as you're drinking from the clear streams you're muddying the rest with your feet? ¹⁹ My flock is grazing on what you've been treading down with your feet and they're drinking what you've been making muddy with your feet!'

²⁰ "Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: "Watch me! I'm going to judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep, ²¹ since you've been bumping aside all the weaker sheep with your backsides and shoulders, butting them with your horns until they're scattered around outside. ²² That's how I'll save my sheep so they won't be plundered any longer. I'm going to judge between one sheep and another.'" ²³ ""Then I'll install one shepherd for them my servant David and he will feed them, will be there for them, and will serve as their shepherd. ²⁴ I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will rule among them as Prince.' I, the LORD, have spoken this.