1-6 A reproof of the shepherds 7-10 God's judgment against them 11-19 His providence over his flock 20-31 The kingdom of Christ

2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

the shepherds. The shepherds of Israel, signify their kings and princes, priests and prophets; the flock, the whole of the people; the fat and wool, the tithes and offerings, taxes and imposts: these they exacted with great rigour, and even oppressed and destroyed the people it enrich themselves; but they bestowed no pains to provide for the welfare of the state, or for the souls of those entrusted to them. They knew nothing about their flock: it might be diseased, infirm, bruised, maimed, strayed, or lost, for they watched not over them. Eze 33:24 Jer 2:8 3:15 10:21 12:10 Joh 10:1,2,12

Woe Eze 34:8-10 13:19 Jer 23:1 Mic 3:1-3,11,12 Zep 3:3,4 Zec 11:17 Mt 24:48-51 Lu 12:42-46 20:46,47 Ro 16:18 2Pe 2:3

feed 2Sa 5:2 Ps 78:71,72 Isa 40:11 Joh 21:15-17 Ac 20:26,29 1Pe 5:2-4

3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

eat Isa 56:11,12 Zec 11:5,16

ye kill Eze 19:3,6 22:25-28 33:25,26 1Ki 22:13-16 2Ki 21:16 Isa 1:10,15 Jer 2:30 22:17 La 4:13 Mic 3:1-3 Zep 3:3

4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

diseased Eze 34:16 Isa 56:10 Jer 8:22 Zec 11:15,16 Mt 9:36 Heb 12:12

sought Mt 10:6 18:12,13 Lu 15:4-6

but with Ex 1:13,14 Jer 22:13 Mt 21:35 24:49 2Co 1:24 Jas 5:1-6 1Pe 5:2,3 Re 13:14-17 17:5,6

5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

they were Eze 34:6 33:21,28 1Ki 22:,17 2Ch 18:16 Jer 23:2 50:6,17 Zec 13:7 Mt 9:36

because there is no shepherd. or, without a shepherd, as so ver 8. Zec 10:2,3

and they became Eze 34:8 Isa 56:9 Jer 12:9-12 Joh 10:2 Ac 20:29-31

6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

wandered Eze 7:16 Jer 13:16 40:11,12 Heb 11:37,38 1Pe 2:25

my flock Joh 10:16

and none Ps 142:4 Jer 5:1

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

Eze 34:9 Ps 82:1-7 Isa 1:10 Jer 13:13,18 22:2,3 Mic 3:8,9 Mal 2:1 Mt 23:13-36 Lu 11:39

8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

prey Eze 34:5,6,31

the shepherds Eze 34:2,3,10 Ac 20:33 1Co 9:15 2Pe 2:13 Jude 1:12

9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

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10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

I am Eze 5:8 13:8 21:3 35:3 Jer 21:13 50:31 Na 2:13 Zec 10:3 1Pe 3:12

and I will Eze 3:18,20 33:6-8 Jer 13:18-20 Heb 13:17

and cause 1Sa 2:29-36 Jer 39:6 52:9-11,24-27

neither shall Eze 34:2,8

for I will Eze 34:22 Ps 23:5 72:12-14 102:19,20

11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

I Eze 5:8 6:3 Ge 6:17 Le 26:28 De 32:39 Isa 45:12 51:12 Ho 5:14

search Ps 23:1-3 80:1 119:176 Isa 40:10,11 56:8 Jer 23:3 31:8 Mt 13:11,12 Lu 19:10 Joh 10:16

12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

As a shepherd seeketh out. [heb] According to the shepherd's seeking of, etc. 1Sa 17:34,35 Lu 15:4-6 Joh 10:11,12

in the cloudy Eze 30:3 Isa 50:10 Jer 13:16 Joe 2:1-3 Am 5:18-20 Zep 1:15 Ac 2:19-21

13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

I will bring Eze 11:17 20:41 28:25,26 36:24 37:21,22 38:8 39:27 Ps 106:47 Isa 11:11-16 65:9,10 66:19,20 Jer 23:3,4,8 30:3,18 31:8 32:37 Am 9:14 Zep 3:19,20

and feed Eze 34:18-25 Mic 7:14,15

14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

feed them Eze 34:27 Ps 23:1,2 31:8-10 Isa 25:6 30:23,24 40:11 Jer 31:12-14,25 Joh 10:9 Re 7:16

there shall Jer 33:12,13

15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.

Ps 23:2 So 1:7,8 Isa 11:6,7 27:10 65:9,10 Jer 3:15 Ho 2:18 Zep 3:13 Joh 21:15

16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will 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.

seek that Eze 34:4,11 Isa 40:11 61:1-3 Mic 4:6,7 Mt 15:24 18:11-14 Mr 2:17 Lu 5:31,32 15:4-7 19:10

but I Eze 39:18 De 32:15 Isa 5:17 10:16 Jer 50:11 Am 4:1-3

I will feed Isa 49:26 Jer 9:15 10:24 23:15 Mic 7:14

17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

I judge Eze 34:20-22 20:37,38 Zec 10:3 Mt 25:32,33

cattle and cattle. [heb] small cattle of lambs and kids
he goats [heb] great he goats

18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

a small Eze 16:20,47 Ge 30:15 Nu 16:9,13 2Sa 7:19 Isa 7:13

to have Eze 34:2,3 Mic 2:2

bread Eze 32:2 Mt 15:6-9 23:13 Lu 11:52

19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

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20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

Behold Eze 34:10,17 Ps 22:12-16 Mt 25:31-46

21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

ye have Eze 34:3-5 Da 8:3-10 Zec 11:5,16,17

pushed Lu 13:14-16

22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

will I Eze 34:10 Ps 72:12-14 Jer 23:2,3 Zec 11:7-9

and I Eze 34:17

23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

I will Ec 12:11 Isa 40:11 Jer 23:4-6 Mic 5:2-5 Zec 13:7 Joh 10:11 Heb 13:20 1Pe 2:25 5:4

my servant. David king of Israel had been dead upwards of 400 years; and from that time till now there never has been a ruler of any kind in the Jewish nation of the name of David. By David, then, we must understand the Messiah, as the Jews themselves acknowledge, so called because descended from him, and also as being the well beloved [], Son of the Father, as the name imports, and in whom all the promises made to David were fulfilled. Eze 37:24,25 Isa 11:1 55:3,4 Jer 30:9 Ho 3:5 Re 22:16

24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

I the Lord will Eze 34:30,31 36:28 37:23,27 39:22 Ex 29:45,46 Isa 43:2,3 Jer 31:1,33 32:38 Zec 13:9 Re 21:3

a prince Jos 5:13-15 Ps 2:6 Isa 9:6,7 Jer 23:5,6 33:15-17 Mic 5:2 Mt 28:18 Lu 1:33-33 Ac 5:31 1Co 15:25 Eph 1:21,22 Php 2:9-11 Heb 2:9,10 Re 19:13-16

25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

I will make Eze 37:26 Isa 55:3 Jer 31:31-33 Zec 6:13 Heb 13:20

and will Le 26:6 Job 5:22 Isa 11:6-9 35:9 Ho 2:18-23

and they Eze 34:28 Ps 4:8 Jer 23:6 33:16

26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

make them Ge 12:2 Isa 19:24 Zec 8:13,23

my hill Eze 20:40 Ps 2:6 68:16 132:14-16 133:3 Isa 2:2-4 56:7 Mic 4:1,2

I will cause Le 26:4

showers De 28:12 Ps 68:9 Isa 32:15,20 44:3 Mal 3:10

27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and 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 that served themselves of them.

the tree Eze 47:12 Le 26:4 Ps 85:12 92:12-14 Isa 4:2 35:1,2 61:3 Joh 15:5-8

know that Eze 33:29 39:28

when I Eze 34:10 Le 26:13 Isa 9:4 10:27 14:2,3 52:2,3 Jer 2:20 30:8

served Jer 25:14 27:7

28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

they shall. It is evident that this prophecy could at most have only a typical accomplishment in the return from captivity under Zerubbabel, and in their consequent prosperity; but the restoration of the Jews from their present captivity, and the consequent peace and prosperity of the church and world, fully answer to this energetic language. Eze 34:8 36:4

neither Eze 34:25,29 Jer 30:10 46:27

29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

I will Isa 4:2 11:1 53:2 Jer 23:5 33:15 Zec 3:8 6:12

of renown. or, for renown. Ps 72:17 Isa 9:6

consumed [heb] taken away Eze 34:26,27 36:29 Isa 49:9,10 Re 7:16

neither Eze 36:3-6,15

30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

Eze 34:24 16:62 37:27 Ps 46:7,11 Isa 8:9,10 Mt 1:23 28:20

31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

ye my Eze 36:38 Ps 78:52 80:1 95:7 100:3 Isa 40:11 Mic 7:14 Lu 12:32 Joh 10:11,16,26-30 20:15-17 Ac 20:28 1Pe 5:2,3

I Eze 34:24