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And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make <i>them</i> afraid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Then they will know that I, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, declares the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/34-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God, declares the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font>. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/34.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/34.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />AND I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD OVER THEM, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/ezekiel/34.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/34.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/34.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/34.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/34.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_church_of_christ.htm">The Church of Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">This, then, is the meaning of the text; that God would make Jerusalem and the places round about his hill a blessing. I shall not, however, use it so this morning, but I shall use it in a more confined sense--or, perhaps, in a more enlarged sense--as it applies to the church of Jesus Christ, and to this particular church with which you and I stand connected. "I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_church_of_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_ii_that_none_should.htm">That None Should Enter on a Place of Government who Practise not in Life what they have Learnt by Study. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">There are some also who investigate spiritual precepts with cunning care, but what they penetrate with their understanding they trample on in their lives: all at once they teach the things which not by practice but by study they have learnt; and what in words they preach by their manners they impugn. Whence it comes to pass that when the shepherd walks through steep places, the flock follows to the precipice. Hence it is that the Lord through the prophet complains of the contemptible knowledge <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_ii_that_none_should.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/lxxxii_discourse_on_the_good.htm">Discourse on the Good Shepherd. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Jerusalem, December, a.d. 29.) ^D John X. 1-21. ^d 1 Verily, verily, I say to you [unto the parties whom he was addressing in the last section], He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. [In this section Jesus proceeds to contrast his own care for humanity with that manifested by the Pharisees, who had just cast out the beggar. Old Testament prophecies were full of declarations that false shepherds would arise to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/lxxxii_discourse_on_the_good.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/chapter_x_the_good_shepherd.htm">The Good Shepherd' and his one Flock' - Last Discourse at the Feast of Tabernacles. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The closing words which Jesus had spoken to those Pharisees who followed HIm breathe the sadness of expected near judgment, rather than the hopefulness of expostulation. And the Discourse which followed, ere He once more left Jerusalem, is of the same character. It seems, as if Jesus could not part from the City in holy anger, but ever, and only, with tears. All the topics of the former Discourses are now resumed and applied. They are not in any way softened or modified, but uttered in accents of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/chapter_x_the_good_shepherd.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_1_gods_purpose_for.htm">God's Purpose for his Church</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The church is God's appointed agency for the salvation of men. It was organized for service, and its mission is to carry the gospel to the world. From the beginning it has been God's plan that through His church shall be reflected to the world His fullness and His sufficiency. The members of the church, those whom He has called out of darkness into His marvelous light, are to show forth His glory. The church is the repository of the riches of the grace of Christ; and through the church will eventually <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_1_gods_purpose_for.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_vi_the_everlasting_covenant.htm">The Everlasting Covenant of the Spirit</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"They shall be My people, and l will be their God. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me."--JER. xxxii. 38, 40. "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_vi_the_everlasting_covenant.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Two Covenants</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xxiii_how_to_make.htm">How to Make Use of Christ as the Life when the Soul is Dead as to Duty. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Sometimes the believer will be under such a distemper, as that he will be as unfit and unable for discharging of any commanded duty, as dead men, or one in a swoon, is to work or go a journey. And it were good to know how Christ should be made use of as the Life, to the end the diseased soul may be delivered from this. For this cause we shall consider those four things: 1. See what are the several steps and degrees of this distemper. 2. Consider whence it cometh, or what are the causes or occasions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_xxiii_how_to_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Brown (of Wamphray)—</span><span class="citation2">Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xvi_the_shepherd_of.htm">The Shepherd of Our Souls. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I am the good Shepherd: the good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep."--John x. 11. Our Lord here appropriates to Himself the title under which He had been foretold by the Prophets. "David My servant shall be king over them," says Almighty God by the mouth of Ezekiel: "and they all shall have one Shepherd." And in the book of Zechariah, "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the man that is My fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts; smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_xvi_the_shepherd_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xiii_covenanting_predicted_in.htm">Covenanting Predicted in Prophecy. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The fact of Covenanting, under the Old Testament dispensations, being approved of God, gives a proof that it was proper then, which is accompanied by the voice of prophecy, affording evidence that even in periods then future it should no less be proper. The argument for the service that is afforded by prophecy is peculiar, and, though corresponding with evidence from other sources, is independent. Because that God willed to make known truth through his servants the prophets, we should receive it <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xiii_covenanting_predicted_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_2/sermon_xxxvii_the_extent_of.htm">The Extent of Messiah's Spiritual Kingdom</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ, and He shall reign for ever and ever! T he Kingdom of our Lord in the heart, and in the world, is frequently compared to a building or house, of which He Himself is both the Foundation and the Architect (Isaiah 28:16 and 54:11, 12) . A building advances by degrees (I Corinthians 3:9; Ephesians 2:20-22) , and while it is in an unfinished state, a stranger cannot, by viewing its present appearance, form an accurate judgment <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah_vol_2/sermon_xxxvii_the_extent_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Messiah Vol. 2</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_8_the_eighth_commandment.htm">The Eighth Commandment</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou shalt not steal.' Exod 20: 15. AS the holiness of God sets him against uncleanness, in the command Thou shalt not commit adultery;' so the justice of God sets him against rapine and robbery, in the command, Thou shalt not steal.' The thing forbidden in this commandment, is meddling with another man's property. The civil lawyers define furtum, stealth or theft to be the laying hands unjustly on that which is another's;' the invading another's right. I. The causes of theft. [1] The internal causes <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_8_the_eighth_commandment.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">The Ten Commandments</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/ezekiel/34-23.htm">Ezekiel 34:23 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/34-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 34:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 34:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/34-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 34:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 34:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/ezekiel/34-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>