Ezekiel 34:16

The true Shepherd seeks the lost, restores the strayed, heals the broken and weak, but judges the fat and strong. God's care includes justice toward the predators within the flock.

Cross-references · 22

• Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
• Ezek 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
• Ezek 34:11For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
• Isa 49:26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
• Luke 15:4–7“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
• Luke 5:31–32Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
• Mic 4:6–7“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
• Mark 2:17On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
• Ezek 39:18You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
• Isa 10:16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
• Isa 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
• Jer 10:24Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
• Mic 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Isa 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
• Jer 9:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
• Isa 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Matt 15:24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
• Matt 18:10–14See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.
• Jer 23:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
• Amos 4:1–3Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
• Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
• Jer 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

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