Ezekiel 34:1

The Darby Translation

And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

Amplified Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the woorde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord God said:

Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:

Easy-to-Read Version
The word of the Lord came to me. He said,

George Lamsa Translation
AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me.

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge:

American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:

New King James Version
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
Then this message came to me from the Lord :

New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, it saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me:

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherd-leaders of Israel. Yes, prophesy! Tell those shepherds, ‘ God , the Master, says: Doom to you shepherds of Israel, feeding your own mouths! Aren't shepherds supposed to feed sheep? You drink the milk, you make clothes from the wool, you roast the lambs, but you don't feed the sheep. You don't build up the weak ones, don't heal the sick, don't doctor the injured, don't go after the strays, don't look for the lost. You bully and badger them. And now they're scattered every which way because there was no shepherd—scattered and easy pickings for wolves and coyotes. Scattered—my sheep!—exposed and vulnerable across mountains and hills. My sheep scattered all over the world, and no one out looking for them!

Contextual Overview

¹ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, ² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy; and say unto them, unto the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? ³ Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool; ye kill them that are fattened: [but] ye feed not the flock. ⁴ The weak have ye not strengthened, nor have ye healed the sick, and ye have not bound up [what was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought for that which was lost; but with harshness and with rigour have ye ruled over them. ⁵ And they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. ⁶ My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill, and my sheep have been scattered upon all the face of the earth, and there was none that searched, or that sought for them.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Jeremiah 29:14 - and I will turn Ezekiel 26:20 - I shall bring Ezekiel 35:1 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 26:34
And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 27:46
And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?

Genesis 28:6
And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-Aram, to take a wife thence, blessing him, and giving him a charge saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Genesis 30:13
And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.

Genesis 30:21
And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

Genesis 46:15
—These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram; and his daughter, Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

Jeremiah 2:36
Why dost thou gad about so much, and change thy way? Thou shalt also be brought to shame by Egypt, as thou wast brought to shame by Assyria.

1 Timothy 5:13
And, at the same time, they learn also [to be] idle, going about to people's houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

Titus 2:5
discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord came unto me,.... The date of this prophecy is not given; however, it seems to have been delivered after the destruction of Jerusalem; the causes of which are mentioned, the sins of the people and their governors, which the prophet is directed to expose:

saying: as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet has yet to pronounce a judgment upon unfaithful rulers, whose punishment will further the good of those whom they have misguided. He shows what the rulers should have been, what they have been, and what in the coming times they shall be when the True King shall reign in the true kingdom. Hence, follows a description of Messiah’s reign.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXIV

The prophet is commanded to declare the dreadful judgments of

God against the covetous shepherds of Israel, who feed

themselves, and not their flocks; by which emblem the priests

and Levites are intended, who in Ezekiel's time were very

corrupt, and the chief cause of Israel's apostasy and ruin,

1-10.

From this gloomy subject the prophet passes to the blessedness

of the true Israel of God under the reign of DAVID, the Great

Shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ being named after

this prince by a figure exceedingly frequent in the sacred

oracles, of putting the type for the antitype, 11-31.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIV