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Ezekiel 34:16-22 New English Translation (NET)

16. I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!

17. “‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

18. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?

19. As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

20. “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

21. Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,

22. I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

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