New American Standard Bible

Ezekiel 34:18-26 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

18. Is it too slight a thing for you that you should feed in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?

19. As for My flock, they must eat what you tread down with your feet and drink what you foul 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 push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

22. therefore, I will deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

23. "Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

24. And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the Lord have spoken.

25. "I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

26. I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing.