Yechezkel, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {34:2} Son of man,
prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra'el, prophesy, and tell them,
even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the shepherds of
Yisra'el who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?
{34:3} You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the
fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep. {34:4} You haven't
strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was
sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have
you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought
that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have you ruled over
them. {34:5} They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and
they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
{34:6} My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high
hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the
[1>]eretz[<1]; and there was none who searched or sought. {34:7}
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: {34:8} 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, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep; {34:9} therefore,
you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: {34:10} Thus says the Lord
GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep
at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither
shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my
sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. {34:11}
For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for
my sheep, and will seek them out. {34:12} As a shepherd seeks out his
flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad,
so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places
where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. {34:13} I
will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the
countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed
them on the mountains of Yisra'el, by the watercourses, and in all the
inhabited places of the country. {34:14} I will feed them with good
pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Yisra'el shall their
fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture
shall they feed on the mountains of Yisra'el. {34:15} I myself will be
the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the
Lord GOD. {34:16} 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 the fat and the strong I
will destroy; I will feed them in justice. {34:17} As for you, O my
flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and
sheep, the rams and the male goats. {34:18} Seems it 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 you must foul the residue with your feet? {34:19} 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. {34:20}
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, even I, will
judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. {34:21} Because you
thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with
your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; {34:22} therefore
will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will
judge between sheep and sheep. {34:23} I will set up one shepherd over
them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed
them, and he shall be their shepherd. {34:24} I, the LORD, will be
their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, the LORD, have
spoken it. {34:25} I will make with them a covenant of shalom, and
will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell
securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. {34:26} I will
make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will
cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of
blessing. {34:27} The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
[2>]eretz[<2] shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in
their land; and they shall 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. {34:28} They shall no more be a prey to
the nations, neither shall the animals of the [3>]eretz[<3] devour
them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
{34:29} I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they
shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the
shame of the nations any more. {34:30} They shall know that I, the
LORD, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Yisra'el,
are my people, says the Lord GOD. {34:31} You my sheep, the sheep of
my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.
{35:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {35:2} Son
of man, set your face against Mount Se`ir, and prophesy against it,
{35:3} and tell it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you,
Mount Se`ir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will
make you a desolation and an astonishment. {35:4} I will lay your
cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am
the LORD. {35:5} Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have
given over the children of Yisra'el to the power of the sword in the
time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; {35:6}
therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you to blood,
and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore
blood shall pursue you. {35:7} Thus will I make Mount Se`ir an
astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who
passes through and him who returns. {35:8} I will fill its mountains
with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your
watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword. {35:9} I
will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be
inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD. {35:10} Because you
have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine,
and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: {35:11} therefore,
as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according to your anger, and
according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against
them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
{35:12} You shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults
which you have spoken against the mountains of Yisra'el, saying, They
are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. {35:13} You have
magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied
your words against me: I have heard it. {35:14} Thus says the Lord
GOD: When the whole [1>]eretz[<1] rejoices, I will make you desolate.
{35:15} As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of
Yisra'el, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be
desolate, Mount Se`ir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
{36:1} You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Yisra'el, and
say, You mountains of Yisra'el, hear the word of the LORD. {36:2} Thus
says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and,
The ancient high places are ours in possession; {36:3} therefore
prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because, even because they
have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you
might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken
up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; {36:4}
therefore, you mountains of Yisra'el, hear the word of the Lord GOD:
Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the
watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the
cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the
residue of the nations that are round about; {36:5} therefore thus
says the Lord GOD: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken
against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have
appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all
their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. {36:6}
Therefore prophesy concerning Eretz-Yisra'el, and tell the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says
the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath,
because you have borne the shame of the nations: {36:7} therefore thus
says the Lord GOD: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are
round about you, they shall bear their shame. {36:8} But you,
mountains of Yisra'el, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield
your fruit to my people Yisra'el; for they are at hand to come. {36:9}
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be
tilled and sown; {36:10} and I will multiply men on you, all the house
of Yisra'el, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and
the waste places shall be built; {36:11} and I will multiply on you
man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will
cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better
[to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the
LORD. {36:12} Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people
Yisra'el; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their
inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of
children. {36:13} Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, You
[land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
{36:14} therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your
nation any more, says the Lord GOD; {36:15} neither will I let you
hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the
reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation
to stumble any more, says the Lord GOD. {36:16} Moreover the word of
the LORD came to me, saying, {36:17} Son of man, when the house of
Yisra'el lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by
their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in
her impurity. {36:18} Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the
blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had
defiled it with their idols; {36:19} and I scattered them among the
nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to
their way and according to their doings I judged them. {36:20} When
they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name;
in that men said of them, These are the people of the LORD, and are
gone forth out of his land. {36:21} But I had regard for my holy name,
which the house of Yisra'el had profaned among the nations, where they
went. {36:22} Therefore tell the house of Yisra'el, Thus says the Lord
GOD: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Yisra'el, but for my
holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
{36:23} I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among
the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the
nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall
be sanctified in you before their eyes. {36:24} For I will take you
from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and
will bring you into your own land. {36:25} I will sprinkle clean water
on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all
your idols, will I cleanse you. {36:26} A new heart also will I give
you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
{36:27} I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. {36:28} You
shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be
my people, and I will be your God. {36:29} I will save you from all
your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it,
and lay no famine on you. {36:30} I will multiply the fruit of the
tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the
reproach of famine among the nations. {36:31} Then shall you remember
your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations. {36:32} Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord
GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
house of Yisra'el. {36:33} Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day that I
cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be
inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. {36:34} The land that
was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight
of all who passed by. {36:35} They shall say, This land that was
desolate is become like the garden of `Eden; and the waste and
desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. {36:36} Then
the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the LORD,
have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I,
the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it. {36:37} Thus says the Lord
GOD: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of
Yisra'el, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a
flock. {36:38} As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of
Yerushalayim in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be
filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:6} earth
[2] {34:27} earth
[3] {34:28} earth
[1] {35:14} earth
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