16. I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was driven away and 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. As for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord God: I will judge between sheep and cattle, between the rams and the male goats.
18. Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?
19. And as for My flock, 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 God to them: I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and between the lean sheep.
21. Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
22. therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I will judge between one sheep and another.
23. I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My servant David. He shall feed them himself 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 with them a covenant of peace and will cause the wild beasts to cease from the land so that they dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26. I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing. And I will cause the showers to come down in their season. They shall be showers of blessing.
27. The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the ground shall yield its increase, and they shall be safe in their land. Then they 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 who enslaved them.
28. They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land devour them. But they shall dwell safely and no one shall make them afraid.
29. I will raise up for them a planting place of renown, and no more shall they be consumed with hunger in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations anymore.
30. Thus shall they know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, says the Lord God.
31. As for you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God.