Hesekiel 34:11

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Ty så säger Herren, HERREN: Se, jag skall själv taga mig an mina får och leta dem tillsammans.

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I: Ezekiel 5:8, Ezekiel 6:3, Genesis 6:17, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 48:15, Isaiah 51:12, Hosea 5:14

search: Psalms 23:1-3, Psalms 80:1, Psalms 119:176, Isaiah 40:10, Isaiah 40:11, Isaiah 56:8, Jeremiah 23:3, Jeremiah 31:8, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:12, Luke 19:10, John 10:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:17 - behold Numbers 18:6 - And I Numbers 27:16 - set a man Psalms 78:52 - like a Psalms 100:3 - we are his Isaiah 27:3 - I the Isaiah 62:12 - Sought out Jeremiah 3:14 - one of a city Jeremiah 23:39 - even I Jeremiah 29:11 - thoughts Ezekiel 34:16 - seek that Micah 2:12 - I will put Luke 15:4 - having John 10:3 - and leadeth 1 Peter 2:25 - the Shepherd

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yahweh is the shepherd of His people. He will do all which the shepherds should have done and did not. These promises - partially fulfilled in the return from Babylon, and in the subsequent prosperity under the Maccabees - point to the ingathering of all nations in the Church of Christ the Good Shepherd. Compare Matthew 18:11 : John 10:1-18; Romans 9:25-33.