Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 34:18

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 35, 36, and following) And I will bring you into a desert of peoples, and there I will judge you face to face. Just as I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, says the Lord. And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

18And is it not enough for you that ye fed on the good pasture, that ye trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and that ye drank the standing water, that ye disturbed the residue with your feet?

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In context

16I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgment.

17And as for you, ye sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats.

— Ezekiel 34:18 —

19So my sheep fed on that which ye had trampled with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.

20Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep.

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