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Ezekiel 34:21

Poverty and the vulnerable

19 Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?’

20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

22 I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

23 I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
KJV
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
WEB
Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad,
ASV
Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
DARBY
Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,
BLB
Because you⁺ have pushed with flank and shoulder, and you⁺ have thrust with your⁺ horns all the weak ones, until that you⁺ have scattered them to the outside,
ÅB
Fordi dere støter alle de svake bort med side og bog og stanger dem med deres horn, til dere får adspredt dem og drevet dem utenfor,
OTB
Fordi dere skyver med flanke og skulder, og stanger alle de svake sauene med hornene deres til dere har spredt dem,
B1930
Fordi I støter alle de svake bort med side og bog og stanger dem med eders horn, til I får adspredt dem og drevet dem utenfor,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Luke 13:14–16

    But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”

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  • Ezekiel 34:3–5

    You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

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  • Zechariah 11:16–17

    For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

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  • Zechariah 11:5

    whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

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  • Deuteronomy 33:17

    His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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  • Daniel 8:3–10

    Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.

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