17 “‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats.(A) 18 Is it not enough(B) for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet?(C) Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? 19 Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.(D) 21 Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns(E) until you have driven them away, 22 I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.(F) 23 I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend(G) them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.(H) 24 I the Lord will be their God,(I) and my servant David(J) will be prince among them.(K) I the Lord have spoken.(L)

25 “‘I will make a covenant(M) of peace(N) with them and rid the land of savage beasts(O) so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.(P) 26 I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.[a](Q) I will send down showers in season;(R) there will be showers of blessing.(S)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:26 Or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be named in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be seen as blessed

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