The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? Jer 23:1Jer 3:15Isa 40:11Ezk 34:8-10Luk 20:46-472Pe 2:3Jer 10:21Psa 78:71-72 You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. Zec 11:161Ki 21:13-162Ki 21:16Ezk 19:3Ezk 19:6Ezk 22:25-28Ezk 33:25-26Isa 1:10 You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. Mat 18:12-13Ezk 34:16Mat 9:36Mat 10:6Zec 11:15-161Pe 5:2-3Exo 1:13-14Heb 12:12 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. 2Ch 18:16Mat 9:36Ezk 34:8Jer 23:21Ki 22:17Act 20:29-31Isa 56:9Jer 50:17 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.” 1Pe 2:25Psa 142:4Ezk 7:16Jer 40:11-12Jhn 10:16Heb 11:37-38Jer 13:16Jer 5:1
“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word: Ezk 34:9Isa 1:10Jer 13:13Jer 13:18Jer 22:2-3Luk 11:39-54Mal 2:1Mat 23:13-36 “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep, 2Pe 2:131Co 9:15Act 20:33Ezk 34:10Ezk 34:18Ezk 34:2-3Ezk 34:31Ezk 34:5-6 therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word!” The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.” Ezk 34:2Zec 10:3Ezk 13:8Jer 21:13Ezk 3:18Ezk 34:8Heb 13:17Jer 52:24-27
“‘For the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. Jhn 10:16Luk 19:10Isa 40:10-11Jer 23:3Jer 31:8Isa 45:12Isa 56:8Psa 80:1 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Isa 40:11Jhn 10:11-12Luk 19:10Luk 15:4-6Ezk 30:3Jer 31:10Jer 13:16Zep 1:15 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. Ezk 28:25-26Ezk 11:17Isa 11:11-16Zep 3:19-20Psa 106:47Jer 32:37Jer 23:3-4Amo 9:14 I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. Jhn 10:9Jer 31:25Psa 23:1-2Jer 31:12-14Ezk 34:27Ezk 36:29-30Isa 25:6Isa 30:23-24 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord GOD. Jer 3:15Psa 23:1-2Ezk 34:23Jhn 21:15Isa 11:6-7Zep 3:13Hos 2:18Isa 27:10 “I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back 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 in justice.”’ Luk 19:10Ezk 34:4Ezk 34:11Isa 49:26Luk 15:4-7Luk 5:31-32Mic 4:6-7Ezk 39:18
“As for you, O my flock, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. Ezk 34:20-22Mat 25:32-33Zec 10:3Ezk 20:37-38 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet? Luk 11:52Mat 23:132Sa 7:19Ezk 34:2-3Isa 7:13Num 16:13Num 16:9Ezk 16:20 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’
“Therefore the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Ezk 34:10Mat 25:31-46Psa 22:12-16Ezk 34:17 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad, Deu 33:17Ezk 34:3-5Luk 13:14-16Zec 11:16-17Zec 11:5Dan 8:3-10 therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. Jer 23:2-3Psa 72:12-14Ezk 34:10Zec 11:7-9 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. Ezk 37:24-25Jer 30:9Isa 40:11Hos 3:5Jhn 10:11Ecc 12:11Isa 55:3-41Pe 5:4 I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken it. Ezk 36:28Jer 23:5-6Jer 31:33Ezk 37:27Rev 21:3Exo 29:45-46Ezk 37:23Isa 43:2-3
“‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. Ezk 37:26Isa 11:6-9Lev 26:6Ezk 34:28Isa 35:9Jer 23:6Jer 33:16Psa 4:8 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing. Deu 28:12Isa 44:3Lev 26:4Psa 68:9Gen 12:2Deu 11:13-15Isa 19:24Mal 3:10 The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. Jer 30:8Lev 26:13Lev 26:4Isa 52:2-3Psa 92:12-14Psa 85:12Isa 4:2Jer 2:20 They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid. Jer 30:10Jer 46:27Ezk 39:26Ezk 34:29Ezk 34:8Ezk 36:15Ezk 34:25Ezk 36:4 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more. Ezk 36:29Ezk 34:26-27Ezk 36:15Isa 4:2Ezk 36:3-6Isa 49:9-10Isa 53:2Isa 60:21 They will know that I, the LORD, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD. Ezk 34:24Ezk 37:27Ezk 14:11Psa 46:11Psa 46:7Ezk 16:62Isa 8:9-10Mat 1:23 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD.” Psa 100:3Jhn 10:16Ezk 36:38Psa 78:52Psa 80:1Act 20:28Jhn 10:11Jhn 20:15-17