Ezekiel 34:20
Verse 20 of 31. The 34th of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.
16“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’
17“As for you, O my flock, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
18Does it seem 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 must you foul the residue with your feet?
19As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’
20“Therefore the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
21Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad,
22therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.
23I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.
24I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken it.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.