17. “As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
18. Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?
19. As for my sheep, 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: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21. Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
22. therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.
23. I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.
24. I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, the Lord, have spoken it.
25. “‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.