Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, (A)the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you (B)searched for the lost; but with force and with violence you have [a]dominated them. They (C)scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became (D)food for every animal of the field and scattered. My flock (E)strayed through all the mountains and on every high hill; (F)My flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was (G)no one to search or seek for them.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:4 Or ruled

You have not strengthened the weak or healed(A) the sick or bound up(B) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(C) So they were scattered because there was no shepherd,(D) and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(E) My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill.(F) They were scattered(G) over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.(H)

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