"{As} I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the f…" — Ezekiel 34:8

Ezekiel 34:8 · KJV

“{As} I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because {there was} no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; {because...: or, without a shepherd}”

— Ezekiel 34:8

Verse 7

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

Verse 9

Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

Ezekiel 34 — Context

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek {after them}.

Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

{As} I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because {there was} no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; {because...: or, without a shepherd}

Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I {am} against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

Cross References

2 Peter 2:13

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, {as} they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots {they are} and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Ezekiel 34:5-6

And they were scattered, because {there is} no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. {because...: or, without a shepherd}

Jude 1:12

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds {they are} without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Ezekiel 34:18

{Seemeth it} a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, 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?

Acts 20:33

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Ezekiel 34:2-3

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe {be} to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

Ezekiel 34:10

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for {it were} better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.