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Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must foul the rest with your feet?
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And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have fouled with your feet?
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"Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
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Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,
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I will save my flock, they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
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And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
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And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.
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"I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
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And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
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And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
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They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them; they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.