33AND WHEN COMES IT THERE! [IT IS] COMING AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT A PROPHET HE HAS BEEN IN MIDST OF THEM 33So when it comes to pass— and surely it will come— then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
1AND IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING A Prophecy against Israel’s Shepherds 1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2O SON OF HUMANKIND PROPHESY ON [THE] SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL PROPHESY AND YOU WILL SAY TO THEM TO THE SHEPHERDS THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH WOE TO! [THE] SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL WHO THEY HAVE BEEN SHEPHERDING <OBJ.> THEMSELVES ¿ NOT THE FLOCK WILL THEY SHEPHERD THE SHEPHERDS 2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?
3<OBJ.> THE FAT YOU EAT AND <OBJ.> THE WOOL YOU CLOTHE YOURSELVES THE FAT [SHEEP] YOU SLAUGHTER THE FLOCK NOT YOU SHEPHERD 3You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
4<OBJ.> THE WEAK [ONES] NOT YOU HAVE STRENGTHENED AND <OBJ.> THE SICK [ONE] NOT YOU HAVE HEALED AND <TO> THE BROKEN [ONE] NOT YOU HAVE BOUND UP AND <OBJ.> THE STRAYED [ONE] NOT YOU HAVE BROUGHT BACK AND <OBJ.> THE LOST [ONE] NOT YOU HAVE SOUGHT AND WITH FORCE YOU HAVE RULED <OBJ.> THEM AND WITH HARSHNESS 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.
5AND THEY HAVE BEEN SCATTERED BECAUSE NOT A SHEPHERD AND THEY HAVE BECOME <INTO> FOOD FOR EVERY <THE> ANIMAL OF THE FIELD AND THEY HAVE BEEN SCATTERED 5They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.
6THEY WANDER FLOCK MY ON ALL THE MOUNTAINS AND ON EVERY HILL HIGH AND OVER ALL [THE] SURFACE OF THE EARTH THEY HAVE BEEN SCATTERED FLOCK MY AND THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] SEARCHES AND THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] SEEKS 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.’
7<TO> THEREFORE O SHEPHERDS HEAR <OBJ.> [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH 7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
8[BY] [THE] LIFE OF ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH IF NOT BECAUSE HAS BECOME FLOCK MY <INTO> PREY AND THEY HAVE BECOME FLOCK MY <INTO> FOOD FOR EVERY <THE> ANIMAL OF THE FIELD FROM NOT SHEPHERD AND NOT THEY HAVE SEARCHED FOR SHEPHERDS MY <OBJ.> FLOCK MY AND THEY HAVE SHEPHERDED THE SHEPHERDS <OBJ.> THEMSELVES AND <OBJ.> FLOCK MY NOT THEY HAVE SHEPHERDED 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,
9<TO> THEREFORE O SHEPHERDS HEAR [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!’
10THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH HERE I [AM] AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS AND I WILL SEEK <OBJ.> FLOCK MY FROM HAND THEIR AND I WILL CAUSE TO CEASE THEM FROM SHEPHERDING A FLOCK AND NOT THEY WILL SHEPHERD AGAIN THE SHEPHERDS <OBJ.> THEMSELVES AND I WILL DELIVER FLOCK MY FROM MOUTH THEIR AND NOT THEY WILL BECOME FOR THEM <INTO> FOOD 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 THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH HERE [AM] I I AND I WILL SEARCH FOR <OBJ.> FLOCK MY AND I WILL SEEK THEM The Good Shepherd (Psalm 23:1–6; John 10:1–21) 11For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
12LIKE [THE] SEEKING OF A SHEPHERD FLOCK HIS ON [THE] DAY IS HE IN AMONG FLOCK HIS SEPARATED SO I WILL SEEK <OBJ.> FLOCK MY AND I WILL DELIVER <OBJ.> THEM FROM ALL THE PLACES WHERE THEY WERE SCATTERED THERE ON A DAY OF CLOUD AND THICK DARKNESS 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.
13AND I WILL BRING OUT THEM FROM THE PEOPLES AND I WILL GATHER THEM FROM THE LANDS AND I WILL BRING THEM TO OWN LAND THEIR AND I WILL SHEPHERD THEM TO [THE] MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL IN THE RAVINES AND IN ALL [THE] HABITABLE PLACES OF THE LAND 13I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.
14IN PASTURE GOOD I WILL SHEPHERD <OBJ.> THEM AND ON [THE] MOUNTAINS OF [THE] HEIGHT OF ISRAEL IT WILL BE PASTURELAND THEIR THERE THEY WILL LIE DOWN IN PASTURELAND GOOD AND PASTURE RICH THEY WILL GRAZE TO [THE] MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL 14I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
15I I WILL SHEPHERD FLOCK MY AND I I WILL MAKE LIE DOWN THEM [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 15I will tend My flock and make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.
16<OBJ.> THE LOST [ONE] I WILL SEEK AND <OBJ.> THE STRAYED [ONE] I WILL BRING BACK AND <TO> THE BROKEN [ONE] I WILL BIND UP AND <OBJ.> THE SICK [ONE] I WILL MAKE STRONG AND <OBJ.> THE FAT [ONE] AND <OBJ.> THE STRONG [ONE] I WILL DESTROY I WILL SHEPHERD IT WITH JUSTICE 16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
17AND YOU O FLOCK MY THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH HERE I [AM] ABOUT TO JUDGE BETWEEN A SHEEP AND A SHEEP AND <THE> RAMS AND <THE> MALE GOATS 17This is what the Lord GOD says to you, My flock: ‘I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the goats.
18¿ [TOO] LITTLE FOR YOU [IS] THE PASTURE <THE> GOOD [WHICH] YOU ARE GRAZING AND [THE] REST OF PASTURE YOUR YOU ARE TRAMPLING WITH FEET YOUR AND CLEARNESS OF WATERS [WHICH] YOU ARE DRINKING AND <OBJ.> THOSE [WHICH] ARE LEFT WITH FEET YOUR YOU ARE FOULING! 18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
19AND FLOCK MY [THE] TRAMPLING PLACE OF FEET YOUR THEY WILL GRAZE AND [THE] BEFOULED THING OF FEET YOUR THEY WILL DRINK 19Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?’
20<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH TO THEM HERE [AM] I I AND I WILL JUDGE BETWEEN A SHEEP FAT AND BETWEEN A SHEEP LEAN 20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21BECAUSE WITH SIDE AND WITH SHOULDER YOU PUSH AND WITH HORNS YOUR YOU THRUST AT ALL THE WEAK [ONES] UNTIL THAT YOU HAVE SCATTERED <OBJ.> THEM TO THE OUTSIDE <TOWARDS> 21Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
22AND I WILL SAVE <TO> FLOCK MY AND NOT THEY WILL BECOME AGAIN <INTO> PREY AND I WILL JUDGE BETWEEN A SHEEP AND A SHEEP 22I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
23AND I WILL RAISE UP OVER THEM A SHEPHERD ONE AND HE WILL SHEPHERD <OBJ.> THEM <OBJ.> SERVANT MY DAVID HE HE WILL SHEPHERD <OBJ.> THEM AND HE HE WILL BECOME FOR THEM <INTO> A SHEPHERD 23I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
24AND I YAHWEH I WILL BECOME FOR THEM <INTO> GOD AND SERVANT MY DAVID [WILL BE] PRINCE IN MIDST OF THEM I YAHWEH I HAVE SPOKEN 24I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.
25AND I WILL MAKE TO THEM A COVENANT OF PEACE AND I WILL CAUSE TO CEASE ANIMAL[S] WILD FROM THE LAND AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS TO SECURITY AND THEY WILL SLEEP IN THE FORESTS The Covenant of Peace 25I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
26AND I WILL MAKE <OBJ.> THEM AND AROUND HILL MY A BLESSING AND I WILL BRING DOWN THE RAIN AT APPROPRIATE TIME ITS RAINS OF BLESSING THEY WILL BE 26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season— showers of blessing.
27AND IT WILL GIVE [THE] TREE[S] OF THE FIELD <OBJ.> FRUIT ITS AND THE LAND IT WILL GIVE PRODUCE ITS AND THEY WILL BE ON OWN LAND THEIR TO SECURITY AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH WHEN BREAK I <OBJ.> [THE] BARS OF YOKE THEIR AND I WILL DELIVER THEM FROM [THE] HAND OF THOSE [WHO] LABORED BY THEM 27The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
28AND NOT THEY WILL BE AGAIN SPOIL FOR THE NATIONS AND [THE] ANIMAL[S] OF THE LAND NOT IT WILL DEVOUR THEM AND THEY WILL DWELL TO SECURITY AND THERE NOT [WILL BE ONE WHO] TERRIFIES 28They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.
29AND I WILL ESTABLISH FOR THEM A PLANTING PLACE FOR NAME AND NOT THEY WILL BE AGAIN [THOSE] GATHERED OF FAMINE IN THE LAND AND NOT THEY WILL BEAR AGAIN [THE] INSULT OF THE NATIONS 29And I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.
30AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I YAHWEH GOD THEIR [AM] WITH THEM AND THEY [ARE] PEOPLE MY [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 30Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,’ declares the Lord GOD.
31AND YOU [ARE] FLOCK MY [THE] FLOCK OF PASTURE MY HUMAN[S] YOU I [AM] GOD YOUR [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 31‘You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,’ declares the Lord GOD.”