Ezekiel 34:23
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
22I will save my dock, and it shall be no more a spoil, and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.
Isaiah 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.
Jeremiah 3:15And I will give you pastors according to my own heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and doctrine.
Jeremiah 30:9But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
Hosea 3:5And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the last days.
Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 34:18-31
God's Care of His Flock; Prediction of Messiah's Kingdom. ( b. c. 587.) 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… Read the whole commentary →