15. I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest—oracle of the Lord God.
16. The lost I will search out, the strays I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, and the sick I will heal; but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them in judgment.
17. As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: I will judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.
18. Was it not enough for you to graze on the best pasture, that you had to trample the rest of your pastures with your hooves? Or to drink the clearest water, that you had to pollute the rest with your hooves?
19. Thus my flock had to graze on what your hooves had trampled and drink what your hooves had polluted.
20. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will judge between the fat and the lean.
21. Because you push with flank and shoulder, and butt all the weak sheep with your horns until you drive them off,
22. I will save my flock so they can no longer be plundered; I will judge between one sheep and another.
23. I will appoint one shepherd over them to pasture them, my servant David; he shall pasture them and be their shepherd.
24. I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince in their midst. I, the Lord, have spoken.
25. I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the country of wild beasts so they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.