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I will myself feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong: I will feed them with judgment.
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And as for you, my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the he-goats.
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Is it too small a thing unto you to have eaten up the good pastures, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures; and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the rest with your feet?
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And my sheep have to eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and to drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, [it is] I, and I will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
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Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,
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-- I will save my flock, that they may no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
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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.
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And I Jehovah will be their God, and my servant David a prince in their midst: I Jehovah have spoken [it].
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And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell in safety in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.