16. “I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.
17. “The Lord God says to you, My flock: I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and male goats.
18. Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
19. Yet My flock has to feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied.
20. “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them: See, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21. Since you have pushed with flank and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns until you scattered them all over,
22. I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey for you. I will judge between one sheep and another.
23. I will appoint over them a single shepherd, My servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.
24. I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken.
25. “I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate dangerous animals in the land, so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
26. I will make them and the area around My hill a blessing: I will send down showers in their season — showers of blessing.