Ezekiel 34:21-31

21 "Because you push with side and with shoulder, and ¹thrust at all the weak with your horns until * you have scattered them abroad,

22 therefore, I will ²deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

23 "Then I will ³set over them one ⁴shepherd, My servant ⁵David, 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 ⁶David will be prince among them; I the LORD have spoken.

25 "I will make a ⁷covenant of peace with them and ⁸eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may ⁹live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

26 "I will make them and the places around My hill a ¹⁰blessing. And I will cause ¹¹showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of ¹²blessing.

27 "Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be ¹³secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have ¹⁴broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

28 "They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will ¹⁵live securely, and no one will make them afraid.

29 "I will establish for them a ¹⁶renowned planting place, and they will ¹⁷not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not ¹⁸endure the insults of the nations anymore.

30 "Then they will know that ¹⁹I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people," declares the Lord GOD.

31 "As for you, My ²⁰sheep, the ²¹sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," declares the Lord GOD.

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Ezekiel 34:21-31 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 34

In the former chapter the prophet prophesies against the people of the Jews, both those of the captivity, and those who were not; and here against the shepherds of Israel. This he is bid to do, Eze 34:1,2, whose cruelty to the flock, negligence and unfaithfulness are exposed, Eze 34:3-6, for which reasons they are threatened to be deprived of their office, Eze 34:7-10, and the Lord promises to take the care of the flock upon himself, to seek out his sheep, and feed them, and do every kind office to them, Eze 34:11-16 and then the strong of the flock, that oppressed the weak, are threatened with punishment, Eze 34:17-22 and the promise of the Messiah, as the shepherd of the flock, is made, under whom all prosperity and happiness might be expected, Eze 34:23-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 21

1. Deuteronomy 33:17; Daniel 8:4; Luke 13:14-16
2. Psalms 72:12-14; Jeremiah 23:3; Ezekiel 34:10
3. Revelation 7:17
4. Isaiah 40:11; John 10:11
5. Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 37:24
6. Isaiah 55:3; Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 37:24, 25; Hosea 3:5
7. Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 20:37; Ezekiel 37:26
8. Job 5:22, 23; Isaiah 11:6-9
9. Jeremiah 33:16; Ezekiel 28:26; Ezekiel 34:27, 28
10. Genesis 12:2; Ezekiel 34:14
11. Deuteronomy 11:13-15; Deuteronomy 28:12
12. Leviticus 25:21; Isaiah 44:3
13. Ezekiel 38:8, 11
14. Leviticus 26:13; Isaiah 52:2, 3; Jeremiah 30:8
15. Jeremiah 30:10; Ezekiel 39:26
16. Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 61:3
17. Ezekiel 34:26, 27; Ezekiel 36:29
18. Ezekiel 36:6, 15
19. Psalms 46:7, 11; Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 36:28
20. Psalms 78:52; Psalms 80:1; Ezekiel 36:38
21. Psalms 100:3; Jeremiah 23:1

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "sick"
[b]. Lit "to the outside"
[c]. Lit "those gathered"