Ezekiel 34:22
20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21 Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
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.
24 I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
- KJV
- Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
- WEB
- therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.
- ASV
- therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
- DARBY
- I will save my flock, that they may no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
- BLB
- I will bring salvation to My flock, and will they be no longer for prey; and I will judge between a sheep and a sheep.
- ÅB
- så vil jeg frelse min flokk, og de skal ikke mere være til rov, og jeg vil dømme mellom sauer og sauer.
- OTB
- vil jeg redde min flokk, og de skal ikke lenger bli plyndret. Jeg vil gjøre forskjell mellom en sau og en annen.
- B1930
- så vil jeg frelse min hjord, og de skal ikke mere være til rov, og jeg vil dømme mellem får og får.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 23:2–3
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 72:12–14
For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
Read in contextEzekiel 34:10
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’
Read in contextZechariah 11:7–9
So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
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