# Ezekiel 34

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/ezekiel/34

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2. Son of man, prophesy against Israel's shepherds, prophesy, and say to them, to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to Israel's shepherds who fed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the flock?
3. You eat the fat, clothe yourselves with the wool, and sacrifice the well-fed, but you do not shepherd the flock.
4. You have not strengthened the ailing, nor healed the sick, nor bandaged the broken, nor restored the banished, nor sought the perishing, but with might and harshness you have dominated them.
5. They dispersed for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for all the beasts of the field, and they dispersed.
6. My flock strayed throughout all the mountains and on every lofty hill, and my flock scattered across the face of the earth, with no one seeking them and no one searching.
7. Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh.
8. As I live, declares the Lord Yahweh, my flock became plunder and my flock food for every beast of the field, since no shepherd existed; my shepherds did not seek my flock, but the shepherds pastured themselves and did not pasture my flock.
9. Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh.
10. Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my flock from their hand and cause them to cease from pasturing the flock; the shepherds will feed themselves no longer, and I will deliver my flock from their mouths so they will not be food for them.
11. For this is what the Lord Yahweh says: See, I myself will seek my flock and inspect them.
12. As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep and rescue them from every place where they were dispersed there, on the day of cloud and thick darkness.
13. I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the lands, and bring them to their own land, and pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the streams, and in all the dwelling places of the country.
14. I will pasture them in good pasture, and on the high mountains of Israel their fold will be; there they will lie down in a good fold, and in rich pasture they will graze upon the mountains of Israel.
15. I myself will shepherd my flock, and I myself will make them lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.
16. I will seek the lost and bring back the driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will pasture them justly.
17. You, my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: See, I myself will judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the bucks.
18. Is it too little for you to graze the good pasture, that you trample the rest of your pastures with your feet, and to drink the settled waters, that you foul the remainder with your feet?
19. My sheep eat what your feet have trampled and drink what your feet have fouled.
20. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I myself will judge between fat sheep and lean sheep.
21. Because you thrust with flank and shoulder, and gored all the sick ones with your horns, until you scattered them abroad.
22. I will save my flock, and they will no longer be prey; I will judge between sheep and sheep.
23. I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he will shepherd them, my servant David; he will shepherd them, and he will be a shepherd to them.
24. I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken.
25. I will make a covenant of peace for them and cause harmful beasts to cease from the land, and they will dwell secure in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.
26. I will make them and the area around my hill a blessing, and I will send rain down in its season; showers of blessing there will be.
27. The trees of the field will bear their fruit, and the land will bring forth its produce, and they will dwell securely on their soil; they will know that I am Yahweh when I shatter the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the power of those who enslaved them.
28. They will no longer be prey to the nations, nor will the beasts of the earth devour them; they will dwell securely, and none will terrify them.
29. I will raise up for them a renowned planting, and they will no longer be consumed by famine in the land, nor bear the reproach of the nations anymore.
30. They will know that I, Yahweh their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord Yahweh.
31. You, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are people, and I am your God, declares the Lord Yahweh.

## Nearby chapters

[Ezekiel 33](https://www.lumin.faith/read/ezekiel/33.md)
[Ezekiel 35](https://www.lumin.faith/read/ezekiel/35.md)

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