[1] The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, prophesy against
the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds,
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed
themselves! Shouldn`t the shepherds feed the sheep? [3] You eat the fat,
and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don`t feed
the sheep. [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. [5] They were scattered, because there was no shepherd;
and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
[6] My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill:
yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was
none who searched or sought. [7] Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of
Yahweh: [8] As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, 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 fed my sheep; [9] therefore, you
shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: [10] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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. [11] For thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
[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. [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 Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the
inhabited places of the country. [14] I will feed them with good pasture;
and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there
shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on
the mountains of Israel. [15] I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep,
and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh. [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. [17] As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. [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? [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. [20] Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the
lean sheep. [21] Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push
all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
[22] therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and
I will judge between sheep and sheep. [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. [24] I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my
servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it. [25] I will
make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease
out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep
in the woods. [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. [27] The tree of the field shall yield its
fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in
their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the
bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who
made slaves of them. [28] They shall no more be a prey to the nations,
neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell
securely, and none shall make them afraid. [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. [30] They shall
know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of
Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh. [31] You my sheep, the sheep
of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.
