Ezekiel 34:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the [a]strong, and I will feed them with [b]judgment.
17 Also you my sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the goats.
18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good [c]pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet, the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must trouble the residue with your feet.
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- Ezekiel 34:16 Meaning, such as lift up themselves above their brethren, and think they have no need to be governed by me.
- Ezekiel 34:16 That is, by putting difference between the good and the bad, and so give to either as they deserve.
- Ezekiel 34:18 By good pasture and deep waters is meant the pure word of God and the administration of justice, which they did not distribute to the poor till they had corrupted it.
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