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21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,[a] 22 I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

23 “‘I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them—namely, my servant David.[b] He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:21 tn Heb “outside.”
  2. Ezekiel 34:23 sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Pss 2; 89).