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"I Myself will feed My flock and I Myself will lead them to rest," declares the Lord GOD.

"As for you, My flock, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says to them: "Behold, I, I Myself will also judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

"And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the LORD have spoken.

"Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people," declares the Lord GOD.

"As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are mankind, and I am your God," declares the Lord GOD.

and say to it, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will reach out with My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste.

therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will certainly doom you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.

therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you displayed because of your hatred for them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Since the enemy has spoken against you, 'Aha!' and, 'The everlasting heights have become our possession,'

therefore prophesy and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "For good reason they have made you desolate and harassed you from every side, so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations; and you have been taken up in the talk and the rumor of the people."'"

'Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities which have become plunder and an object of ridicule to the rest of the nations which are all around—

therefore the Lord GOD says this: "Certainly in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with contempt of soul, in order to make its pastureland plunder."

'Therefore prophesy in regard to the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, "This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.'

"Therefore the Lord GOD says this: 'I have sworn that the nations that are around you will certainly endure their insults themselves.

"The Lord GOD says this: 'Since they say to you, "You are a devourer of people and have bereaved your nation of children,"

for that reason you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares the Lord GOD.

"I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you suffer disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you make your nation stumble any longer," declares the Lord GOD.'"

"Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "It is not for your sake, house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.