Hesekiel 34:18

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Är det eder icke nog att I fån beta på den bästa betesplatsen, eftersom I med edra fötter trampen ned vad som är kvar på eder betesplats? Och är det eder icke nog att I fån dricka det klaraste vattnet, eftersom I med edra fötter grumlen vad som har lämnats kvar?

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a small: Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:47, Genesis 30:15, Numbers 16:9, Numbers 16:13, 2 Samuel 7:19, Isaiah 7:13

to have: Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:3, Micah 2:2, bread, Ezekiel 32:2, Matthew 15:6-9, Matthew 23:13, Luke 11:52

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:31 - as if it had been a light thing Ezekiel 32:13 - neither Ezekiel 34:8 - the shepherds Ezekiel 34:13 - and feed Zechariah 11:5 - and their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture,.... This is directed to the rams and he goats, to the people of power and wealth, or who had the key of knowledge and instruction; who, by their conduct, showed as if it was not enough for them to eat and drink the best of things themselves, to enjoy their wealth and riches, and keep their posts of honour and profit, and the revenues of them, in church and state:

but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? but they must oppress the poor, by taking away from them that little they have; or by making their lives uncomfortable to them, by their severities and exactions; so that that small pittance they had, they cannot enjoy with any pleasure, The allusion is to beasts in pasture, which tread down and put dung what they do not eat, which makes what is left unfit for others; and to cattle, at ponds of water, which having drank, foul the rest with their feet; as camels particularly are said to do; so that others cannot drink after them, at least not so agreeably: this may be applied to the Scribes and Pharisees, and such as they were, who devoured widows' houses, and made void the word and commandments of God, by their traditions; teaching for doctrines the commandments of men; and so polluted the pure waters of the sanctuary; defiled the Scriptures of truth, and delivered out such doctrines as were not food and drink to the souls of men, and yet were obliged to receive them; and such are heretical persons, who sometimes arise out of the churches, are a part of the flock, that corrupt the word of God, pervert the Scriptures, and handle them deceitfully; and may be said to tread down and trample upon the wholesome truths of the Gospel, and to muddy the clear doctrines of grace; so that the children of God cannot, as they desire, have the pure, unmixed, sincere milk of the word.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:18. Have eaten up the good pasture — Arrogate to yourselves all the promises of God, and will hardly permit the simple believer to claim or possess any token of God's favour.

Ye must foul the residue with your feet? — Ye abuse God's mercies; you consume much upon yourselves, and ye spoil more, on which the poor would have been glad to feed. There are some who would rather give food to their sporting dogs than to the poor around them, who are ready to starve, and who would be glad of the crumbs that fall from the table of those masters!