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I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment."
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'And as for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats.
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Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture--and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the residue with your feet?
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And as for My flock, they eat what you have trampled with your feet, and they drink what you have fouled with your feet."
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'Therefore thus says the Lord God to them: "Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat and the lean sheep.
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Because you have pushed with side and shoulder, butted all the weak ones with your horns, and scattered them abroad,
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therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
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I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them--My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.
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And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.
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"I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
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I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.
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Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
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And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.
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I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore.
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Thus they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people," says the Lord God.' "
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You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God," says the Lord God.