Hesekiel 34:11

11 Denn so spricht der HERR HERR: Siehe, ich will mich meiner Herde selbst annehmen und sie suchen.

Hesekiel 34:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 34:11

For thus saith the Lord God
Since the shepherds are so negligent, careless, and cruel: behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out;
as he did the Jews, in all countries where they were, so his elect in all places where they are: he is the omniscient God, and knows them that are his, and can call his own sheep by name; he knows the places where they are; for he has fixed the bounds of their habitation, and was delighting himself in the habitable parts of the earth, where he knew they would be, even before the world was; he knows the time of finding them, which he himself has fixed, and which is a time of love, and a time of life; and he can distinguish them, notwithstanding the filth they have contracted by their sins and transgressions, and from the crowd they are among: and he is the omnipotent God, that can take them out of what hands soever they may be, or in whatsoever state and condition they are; though in the hands of Satan, in the paws of that devouring lion, and in a pit wherein is no water, in a horrible pit, the mire and clay: he that says this is the owner and proprietor of them; and that is the reason why he searches and seeks them out; and which he repeats for the confirmation of it, and to show the vehemence of his affection towards them, and how bent he is upon it, and how eager and resolute in his pursuit after them: he searches for his chosen people among the ruins of Adam's fall, in whom they fell as others; among the men of the world, where they are; among the dust of the earth, where his lost piece of silver and those pearls lie; among the mountains of sin or self-righteousness, where these sheep are wandering; and he never leaves off seeking and searching till he has found them: and what moves him to it is not their nature, for they are no better than others; nor their numbers, for they are few; but his love to them, the relation he stands in to them as their shepherd, his interest and property in them, his covenant on their account, and also his own glory.

Hesekiel 34:11 In-Context

9 darum, ihr Hirten, höret des HERRN Wort!
10 So spricht der HERR HERR: Siehe, ich will an die Hirten und will meine Herde von ihren Händen fordern und will mit ihnen ein Ende machen, daß sie nicht mehr sollen Hirten sein und sollen sich nicht mehr selbst weiden. Ich will meine Schafe erretten aus ihrem Maul, daß sie sie forthin nicht mehr fressen sollen.
11 Denn so spricht der HERR HERR: Siehe, ich will mich meiner Herde selbst annehmen und sie suchen.
12 Wie ein Hirte seine Schafe sucht, wenn sie von seiner Herde verirrt sind, also will ich meine Schafe suchen und will sie erretten von allen Örtern, dahin sie zerstreut waren zur Zeit, da es trüb und finster war.
13 Ich will sie von allen Völkern ausführen und aus allen Ländern versammeln und will sie in ihr Land führen und will sie weiden auf den Berge Israels und in allen Auen und auf allen Angern des Landes.
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