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Ezekiel 34:19-31 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

19. And my sheep were pastured from what you had trampled with your feet, and they drank from what your feet had disturbed.

20. Because of this, thus says the Lord God to you: Behold, I myself am judging between the fat cattle and the lean.

21. For you have pushed with your sides and shoulders, and you have threatened all the weak cattle with your horns, until they were scattered abroad.

22. I will save my flock, and it will be no longer be a prey, and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

23. And I will raise up over them ONE SHEPHERD, who will feed them, my servant David. He himself will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

24. And I, the Lord, will be their God. And my servant David will be the leader in their midst. I, the Lord, have spoken.

25. And I will make a covenant of peace with them. And I will cause the very harmful beasts to cease from the land. And those who are living in the desert will sleep securely in the forests.

26. And I will make them a blessing all around my hill. And I will send the rain in due time; there will be showers of blessing.

27. And the tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the land will yield its crop. And they will be in their own land without fear. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have crushed the chains of their yoke, and when I will have rescued them from the hand of those who rule over them.

28. And they will no longer be a prey to the Gentiles, nor will the wild beasts of the earth devour them. Instead, they will live in confidence without any terror.

29. And I will raise up for them a renown branch. And they will be no longer be diminished by famine in the land, nor will they carry any longer the reproach of the Gentiles.

30. And they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they are my people, the house of Israel, says the Lord God.

31. For you are my flocks; the flocks of my pasture are men. And I am the Lord your God, says the Lord God."