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Ezekiel 34:11The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 34:22“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them—to the shepherds: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:1Jer 3:15Isa 40:11Ezek 34:8-10Luke 20:46-472 Pet 2:3Jer 10:21Ps 78:71-72Rom 16:18Acts 20:29
Ezekiel 34:33You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 11:161 Kgs 21:13-162 Kgs 21:16Ezek 19:3Ezek 19:6Ezek 22:25-28Ezek 33:25-26Isa 1:10Isa 1:15Isa 56:11-12
Ezekiel 34:44You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 18:12-13Ezek 34:16Matt 9:36Matt 10:6Zech 11:15-161 Pet 5:2-3Exod 1:13-14Heb 12:12Jer 8:22Rev 17:5-6
Ezekiel 34:55They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 18:16Matt 9:36Ezek 34:8Jer 23:21 Kgs 22:17Acts 20:29-31Isa 56:9Jer 50:17Zech 10:2-3Ezek 33:21
Ezekiel 34:66My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:25Ps 142:4Ezek 7:16Jer 40:11-12John 10:16Heb 11:37-38Jer 13:16Jer 5:1
Ezekiel 34:77“‘Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the Lord’ s message:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:9Isa 1:10Jer 13:13Jer 13:18Jer 22:2-3Luke 11:39-54Mal 2:1Matt 23:13-36Mic 3:8-9Ps 82:1-7
Ezekiel 34:88As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:131 Cor 9:15Acts 20:33Ezek 34:10Ezek 34:18Ezek 34:2-3Ezek 34:31Ezek 34:5-6Jude 1:12
Ezekiel 34:99Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the Lord ’s message.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 34:1010This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, so that they will no longer be food for them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:2Zech 10:3Ezek 13:8Jer 21:13Ezek 3:18Ezek 34:8Heb 13:17Jer 52:24-27Nah 2:13Ps 23:5
Ezekiel 34:1111“‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:16Luke 19:10Isa 40:10-11Jer 23:3Jer 31:8Isa 45:12Isa 56:8Ps 80:1Isa 51:12Matt 13:11-12
Ezekiel 34:1212As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:11John 10:11-12Luke 19:10Luke 15:4-6Ezek 30:3Jer 31:10Jer 13:16Zeph 1:15Isa 50:10Joel 2:1-3
Ezekiel 34:1313I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:25-26Ezek 11:17Isa 11:11-16Zeph 3:19-20Ps 106:47Jer 32:37Jer 23:3-4Amos 9:14Ezek 36:24Jer 30:3
Ezekiel 34:1414In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:9Jer 31:25Jer 31:12-14Ps 23:1-2Ezek 34:27Ezek 36:29-30Isa 25:6Isa 30:23-24Isa 40:11Jer 33:12-13
Ezekiel 34:1515I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 3:15Ps 23:1-2Ezek 34:23John 21:15Isa 11:6-7Zeph 3:13Hos 2:18Isa 27:10Isa 65:9-10Song 1:7-8
Ezekiel 34:1616I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them—with judgment!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:10Ezek 34:4Ezek 34:11Isa 49:26Luke 15:4-7Luke 5:31-32Mic 4:6-7Ezek 39:18Mark 2:17Isa 10:16
Ezekiel 34:1717“‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:20-22Matt 25:32-33Zech 10:3Ezek 20:37-38
Ezekiel 34:1818Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:52Matt 23:132 Sam 7:19Ezek 34:2-3Isa 7:13Num 16:13Num 16:9Ezek 16:20Ezek 16:47Ezek 32:2
Ezekiel 34:1919As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet and drink what you have muddied with your feet!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Ezekiel 34:2020“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:10Matt 25:31-46Ps 22:12-16Ezek 34:17
Ezekiel 34:2121Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:17Ezek 34:3-5Luke 13:14-16Zech 11:16-17Zech 11:5Dan 8:3-10
Ezekiel 34:2222I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:2-3Ps 72:12-14Ezek 34:10Zech 11:7-9
Ezekiel 34:2323“‘I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them—namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:24-25Jer 30:9Hos 3:5Isa 40:11John 10:11Eccl 12:11Isa 55:3-4Jer 23:4-61 Pet 5:4Rev 22:16
Ezekiel 34:2424I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:28Jer 23:5-6Jer 31:33Ezek 37:27Rev 21:3Exod 29:45-46Ezek 37:23Isa 43:2-3Matt 28:181 Cor 15:25
Ezekiel 34:2525“‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:26Isa 11:6-9Lev 26:6Ezek 34:28Isa 35:9Jer 23:6Jer 33:16Ps 4:8Heb 13:20Hos 2:18-23
Ezekiel 34:2626I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:12Isa 44:3Lev 26:4Ps 68:9Gen 12:2Deut 11:13-15Isa 19:24Mal 3:10Ps 133:3Zech 8:13
Ezekiel 34:2727The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 30:8Lev 26:13Lev 26:4Isa 52:2-3Ps 92:12-14Ps 85:12Isa 4:2Jer 2:20John 15:5-8Ezek 33:29
Ezekiel 34:2828They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely, and no one will make them afraid.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 30:10Jer 46:27Ezek 39:26Ezek 34:29Ezek 34:8Ezek 36:15Ezek 34:25Ezek 36:4
Ezekiel 34:2929I will prepare for them a healthy planting. They will no longer be victims of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:29Ezek 34:26-27Ezek 36:15Isa 4:2Ezek 36:3-6Isa 49:9-10Isa 53:2Isa 60:21Isa 9:6Ps 72:17
Ezekiel 34:3030Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:24Ezek 37:27Ezek 14:11Ps 46:11Ps 46:7Ezek 16:62Isa 8:9-10Matt 1:23Matt 28:20
Ezekiel 34:3131And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 100:3John 10:16Ezek 36:38Ps 78:52Ps 80:1Acts 20:28John 10:11John 20:15-17Isa 40:11John 10:26-30
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