Ezekiel 34:4-12

⁴You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

⁵They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.

⁶My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’

⁷Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

⁸‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,

⁹therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!’

¹⁰This 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.’

¹¹For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

¹²As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

— Ezekiel 34:4-12

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Cross References for Ezekiel 34:4-12

• Luke 19:10
• John 10:16
• Matthew 9:36
• Matthew 18:12-13
• Isaiah 40:11
• John 10:11-12
• Ezekiel 34:16
• Matthew 10:6
• Luke 15:4-6
• Jeremiah 23:3

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