20. Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them, "Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21. Because you push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
22. therefore, I will deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.
23. "Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.
24. And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.
25. "I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
26. I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing.
27. Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
28. They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make them afraid.
29. I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.
30. Then 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.
31. "As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," declares the Lord God.