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For thus says the Lord God , "Behold, I Myself will ^(q)search for My sheep and seek them out.

^(r)As a shepherd ^[k]cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered ^[l]sheep, so I will ^[m](s)care for My ^[n]sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a ^(t)cloudy and gloomy day.

I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will ^(u)feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ^(v)streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

I will feed them in a ^(w)good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in ^[o](x)rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

I will ^(y)feed My flock and I will ^[p]lead them to rest," declares the Lord God .

"I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the ^(z)fat and the strong I will destroy. I will ^(aa)feed them with judgment.

"As for you, My flock, thus says the Lord God , ‘Behold, I will ^(ab)judge between one ^[q]sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

Is it too ^(ac)slight a thing for you that you should feed in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must ^[r]foul the rest with your feet?

As for My flock, they must eat what you tread down with your feet and drink what you ^[s]foul with your feet!'"