AND the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;
8 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;
10 Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
11 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
23 And 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.
24 And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
30 Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

1And the word of þe Lord came vnto me, saying;

2Sonne of man, prophecie against the shepheards of Israel, prophecie and say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God vnto the shepheards, Woe be to the shepheards of Israel that doe feede themselues: should not the shepheards feede the flockes?

3Yee eate the fat, and ye clothe you with the wooll, yee kill them that are fed: but ye feede not the flocke.

4The diseased haue ye not strengthened, neither haue yee healed that which was sicke, neither haue ye bound vp that which was broken, neither haue yee brought againe that which was driuen away, neither haue yee sought that which was lost; but with force and with crueltie haue yee ruled them.

5And they were scattered because there is no shepheard: and they became meate to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

6My sheepe wandered through all the mountaines, and vpon euery high hill: yea my flocke was scattered vpon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seeke after them.

7 Therefore, yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.

8As I liue, saith the Lord God, surely because my flocke became a pray, and my flocke became meate to euery beast of the field, because there was no shepheard, neither did my shepheards search for my flocke, but the shepheards fed themselues, and fed not my flocke:

9Therefore, O yee shepheards, heare the word of the Lord.

10Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepheards, and I will require my flocke at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flocke, neither shall the shepheards feede themselues any more: for I will deliuer my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

11 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, euen I will both search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

12As a shepheard seeketh out his flocke in the day that hee is among his sheepe that are scattered: so wil I seeke out my sheep, and will deliuer them out of all places, where they haue bene scattered in the cloudie and darke day.

13And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countreys, and will bring them to their owne land, and feede them vpon the mountaines of Israel by the riuers, and in all the inhabited places of the countrey,

14I will feede them in a good pasture, and vpon the high mountaines of Israel shall their folde be: there shall they lie in a good folde, and in a fat pasture shall they feede vpon the mountaines of Israel.

15I will feed my flocke, and I will cause them to lie downe, saith the Lord God.

16I will seeke that which was lost, and bring againe that which was driuen away, and will bind vp that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sicke: but I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with iudgement.

17And as for you, O my flocke, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I iudge betweene cattell and cattell, betweene the rammes and the hee goates.

18Seemeth it a small thing vnto you, to haue eaten vp the good pasture, but ye must tread downe with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to haue drunke of the deepe waters, but yee must fonle the residue with your feete?

19And as for my flocke, they eate that which yee haue troden with your feete: and they drinke that which yee haue fouled with your feete.

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God vnto them, Behold, I, euen I will iudge betweene the fat cattell, and betweene the leane cattell.

21Because yee haue thrust with side and with shoulder, and pusht all the diseased with your hornes, till yee haue scattered them abroad:

22Therefore will I saue my flocke, and they shall no more be a pray, and I will iudge betweene cattell and cattell.

23And I will set vp one shepheard ouer them, and hee shall feede them, euen my seruant Dauid; he shall feede them, and hee shall be their shepheard.

24And I the Lord will be their God, and my seruant Dauid a prince among them, I the Lord haue spoken it.

25And I will make with them a couenant of peace, and will cause the euill beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wildernesse, and sleepe in the woods.

26And I will make them and the places round about my hill, a blessing; and I will cause the showre to come downe in his season: there shall bee showres of blessing.

27And the tree of the field shal yeeld her fruite, and the earth shall yeeld her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I haue broken the bands of their yoke, and deliuered them out of the hand of those that serued themselues of them.

28And they shall no more be a pray to the heathen, neither shall the beasts of the land deuoure them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraide.

29And I will raise vp for them a plant of renowne, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither beare the shame of the heathen any more.

30Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, euen the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.

31And yee my flocke of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

II == Jer 23:1 ; Ezek 33:24 ; Zech 11:17

III == Isa 56:11 ; Ezek 33:25-26 ; Mich 3:1-3 ; Zech 11:5 , 16

IV == Ezek 34:16 ; Zech 11:16 ; Luke 15:4 ; 1st Peter 5:3

V == 1st Kings 22:17 ; Isa 56:9 ; Jer 12:9 ; Ezek 33:21 , 28 ; 34:8 ; Matt 9:36

VIII == Ezek 34:2 , 5-6 , 10

X == Ezek 3:18 ; 34:2 , 8 ; Heb 13:17

XII == Ezek 30:3 ; Joel 2:2

XIII == Isa 68:9-10 ; Jer 23:3 ; Ezek 28:25 ; 36:24 ; 37:21-22

XIV == Ps 23:2 ; Jer 33:12

XVI == Isa 10:16 ; 40:11 ; Jer 10:24 ; Ezek 34:4 ; Amos 4:1 ; Matt 18:11 ; Mark 2:17 ; Luke 5:32

XVII == Ezek 20:37-38 ; 34:20 , 22 ; Zech 10:3 ; Matt 25:32-33

XX == Ezek 34:17

XXII == Ezek 34:17

XXIII == Isa 40:11 ; Jer 23:4-5 ; 30:9 ; Ezek 37:24-25 ; Hos 3:5 ; John 10:11 ; Heb 13:20 ; 1st Peter 2:25 ; 5:4

XXIV == Ex 29:45 ; Ezek 34:30 ; 37:22 , 27 ; Luke 1:32-33

XXV == Lev 26:6 ; Isa 11:6-9 ; Jer 23:6 ; Ezek 34:28 ; 37:26 ; Hos 2:18

XXVI == Gen 12:2 ; Lev 26:4

XXVII == Lev 26:4 , 13 ; Ps 85:12 ; Isa 4:2 ; Jer 2:20 ; 25:14

XXVIII == Jer 30:10 ; 46:27 ; Ezek 34:8 , 25 ; 36:4

XXIX == Isa 11:1

XXXI == Ps 100:3 ; John 10:11

1 Thus the word of the LORD came to me:

2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, in these words prophesy to them (to the shepherds): Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds, rather, pasture sheep?

3 You have fed off their milk, worn their wool, and slaughtered the fatlings, but the sheep you have not pastured.

4 You did not strengthen the weak nor heal the sick nor bind up the injured. You did not bring back the strayed nor seek the lost, but you lorded it over them harshly and brutally.

5 So they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered

6 and wandered over all the mountains and high hills; my sheep were scattered over the whole earth, with no one to look after them or to search for them.

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

8 As I live, says the Lord GOD, because my sheep have been given over to pillage, and because my sheep have become food for every wild beast, for lack of a shepherd; because my shepherds did not look after my sheep, but pastured themselves and did not pasture my sheep;

9 because of this, shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

10 Thus says the Lord GOD: I swear I am coming against these shepherds. I will claim my sheep from them and put a stop to their shepherding my sheep so that they may no longer pasture themselves. I will save my sheep, that they may no longer be food for their mouths.

11 For thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep.

12 As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark.

13 I will lead them out from among the peoples and gather them from the foreign lands; I will bring them back to their own country and pasture them upon the mountains of Israel (in the land's ravines and all its inhabited places).

14 In good pastures will I pasture them, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing ground. There they shall lie down on good grazing ground, and in rich pastures shall they be pastured on the mountains of Israel.

15 I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest, says the Lord GOD.

16 The lost I will seek out, the strayed I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, the sick I will heal (but the sleek and the strong I will destroy), shepherding them rightly.

17 As for you, my sheep, says the Lord GOD, I will judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

18 Was it not enough for you to graze on the best pasture, that you had to trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? Was it not enough for you to drink the clearest water, that you had to foul the remainder with your feet?

19 Thus my sheep had to graze on what your feet had trampled and drink what your feet had fouled.

20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now will I judge between the fat and the lean sheep.

21 Because you push with side and shoulder, and butt all the weak sheep with your horns until you have driven them out,

22 I will save my sheep so that they may no longer be despoiled, and I will judge between one sheep and another.

23 I will appoint one shepherd over them to pasture them, my servant David; he shall pasture them and be their shepherd.

24 I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

25 I will make a covenant of peace with them, and rid the country of ravenous beasts, that they may dwell securely in the desert and sleep in the forests.

26 I will place them about my hill, sending rain in due season, rains that shall be a blessing to them.

27 The trees of the field shall bear their fruits, and the land its crops, and they shall dwell securely on their own soil. Thus they shall know that I am the LORD when I break the bonds of their yoke and free them from the power of those who enslaved them.

28 They shall no longer be despoiled by the nations or devoured by beasts of the earth, but shall dwell secure, with no one to frighten them.

29 I will prepare for them peaceful fields for planting; they shall no longer be carried off by famine in the land, or bear the reproaches of the nations.

30 Thus they shall know that I, the LORD, am their God, and they are my people, the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.

31 (You, my sheep, you are the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.)

v 1-6. Israel’s leaders 1 Put their own interests above the people; 2 They ruled harshly, 3 They allowed the people to be scattered without regard for them.

v 7-10. Therefore these leaders would be removed from their positions of power.

v 11-16. This regathering of the sheep by the Great Shepherd is prior to and effective throughout the Millennium.

v 17- 24. Some sheep were like the false shepherds in bad treatment of others. The good sheep will go into the Millennium and God will give them a new prince, David means “beloved” and Christ was the beloved Son of God. Messiah is apparently called "David" in Isa 55:3,4 Jer 30:9 Ho 3:5. So this may be Christ, offspring of David. However, if he were Christ, he would not offer sin offerings for himself, 45:22; 46:4. It seems that Christ, the King, will have other princes who will rule under Him in the line of David, including resurrected David, and it is difficult to tell which is being spoken of at times.

v 25-31. In the Millennium Israel will have peace with nations, animals, & weather.