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As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
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Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?
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As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
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Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;
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therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
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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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I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken it.
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I will make with them a covenant of shalom, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
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I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
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The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the eretz shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.