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Ezekiel
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The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? See also: Jeremiah 23:1Jeremiah 3:15Isaiah 40:11You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. See also: Zechariah 11:16Lamentations 4:13Jeremiah 22:17You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. See also: Matthew 18:12-13Matthew 9:36Ezekiel 34:16They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. See also: 2 Chronicles 18:16Matthew 9:36Jeremiah 23:2My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.” See also: 1 Peter 2:25Psalms 142:4John 10:16“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word: See also: Ezekiel 34:9Malachi 2:1Jeremiah 13:18“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep, See also: 2 Peter 2:131 Corinthians 9:15Ezekiel 34:2-3therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word!” The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.” See also: Ezekiel 34:2Zechariah 10:3Ezekiel 13:8“‘For the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. See also: John 10:16Luke 19:10Jeremiah 23:3As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. See also: John 10:11-12Isaiah 40:11Luke 19:10I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. See also: Ezekiel 28:25-26Ezekiel 11:17Isaiah 11:11-16I will feed them with good pasture, and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. See also: John 10:9Psalms 23:1-2Jeremiah 31:25I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Psalms 23:1-2Jeremiah 3:15Ezekiel 34:23“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.”’ See also: Luke 19:10Ezekiel 34:4Ezekiel 34:11“As for you, O my flock, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. See also: Ezekiel 34:20-22Zechariah 10:3Matthew 25:32-33Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet? See also: Matthew 23:13Luke 11:52Numbers 16:13As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.’ “Therefore the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. See also: Matthew 25:31-46Psalms 22:12-16Ezekiel 34:10Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad, See also: Zechariah 11:16-17Deuteronomy 33:17Zechariah 11:5therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. See also: Jeremiah 23:2-3Psalms 72:12-14Ezekiel 34:10I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. See also: Ezekiel 37:24-25Jeremiah 30:9Isaiah 40:11I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken it. See also: Jeremiah 23:5-6Jeremiah 31:33Ezekiel 36:28“‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. See also: Isaiah 11:6-9Ezekiel 37:26Leviticus 26:6I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing. See also: Deuteronomy 28:12Isaiah 44:3Leviticus 26:4The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. See also: Jeremiah 30:8Leviticus 26:13Leviticus 26:4They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid. See also: Jeremiah 30:10Jeremiah 46:27Ezekiel 39:26I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more. See also: Ezekiel 36:29Isaiah 4:2Ezekiel 34:26-27They will know that I, the LORD, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD. See also: Ezekiel 37:27Ezekiel 34:24Psalms 46:11You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD.” See also: Psalms 100:3John 10:16Psalms 78:52
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 34:2
Ver. 2. Shepherds. That is, princes, magistrates, chief priests, and scribes. Ch.
--- Shepherds may lawfully take milk, (1 Cor. ix. 7.) but the sheep and its wool belong to the master. W. ---
Excellent instructions are here given for all in authority. C.
↑ 2Ezekiel 34:3
Ver. 3. Fat. Pastors often disguise the truth to flatter the rich, or the more just souls are ruined by their negligence.
↑ 3Ezekiel 34:4
Ver. 4. Healed. God alone can restore to life. But pastors will not be excused by ignorance if they know not the maladies and the remedies of their flock. ---
Hand. This was blamed in the Pharisees, and is contrary to the spirit of the gospel. Mat. xxiii. 4. 1 Pet. v. 2.
↑ 4Ezekiel 34:5
Ver. 5. Field. The people being neglected, followed false prophets and idols.
Their teachers were so far from striving to reclaim them, that they perhaps shewed them the example. C.
↑ 5Ezekiel 34:8
Ver. 8. No shepherd. Pastors who seek only their temporal advantage, (1 Tim.
vi. 5. Tit. i. 7. H.) are hirelings; and if they teach false doctrine, they are wolves.
John x. W.
↑ 8Ezekiel 34:10
Ver. 10. Cease. Both the leaders and the people were led into captivity.
↑ 10Ezekiel 34:12
Ver. 12. Day, in persecution. I will count my sheep, lest any be lost.
↑ 12Ezekiel 34:13
Ver. 13. Land. All this cannot be understood of the synagogue alone.
↑ 13Ezekiel 34:16
Ver. 16. Preserve, (Sept. Syr.) which seems more natural than Heb. and Chal.
"destroy." I will not eat them, like bad shepherds. v. 3. C. --- God and those whom he sends, will take care of the flock. Eph. iv. W.
↑ 16Ezekiel 34:17
Ver. 17. Cattle. The crimes of the pastors do not excuse the flock. In it there are people of different dispositions. The rich often destroy, and these are brought to an account. v. 24. C.
↑ 17Ezekiel 34:23
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 23. David; Christ, who is of the house of David. C. --- That king had been dead long before, so that no Jew or heretic can deny but that the Messias is here meant, as C. xxxvii. 24. &c. W. ---
He possessed eminently all the virtues of David, and was of his seed.
Zorobabel, &c. cannot be understood, as we have no proof that the governors after the captivity were chosen from the tribe of Juda. C. xxi. 27.
↑ 23Ezekiel 34:25
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 25. Peace. Christ pacifies all. Rom. xv. 33. Mic. v. 5. Eph. vi. 15. --- Beasts: those who promote idolatry; or, speaking of Christians, who teach heretical doctrine and persecute the Church. C.
↑ 25Ezekiel 34:26
Ver. 26. Make. Lit. "place." H. --- Sept. read not a blessing, which seems superfluous. C. ---
Yet Chal. has it, and the idea is more complete. H.
↑ 26Ezekiel 34:29
Ver. 29. A bud of renown, ( germen nominatum. ) He speaks of Christ, our Lord, the illustrious bud of the house of David, renowned over all the earth. See Jer.
xxxiii. 15. Ch. --- Sept. Syr. "a plant of peace." Chal. "established." C.
↑ 29Ezekiel 34:31
Ver. 31. Men. What has been said of sheep (M.) relates to you. --- Am the Lord.
This is not in Heb. or Prot. H. --- But it is found in one Heb. MS. and Sept. as this version is thus frequently confirmed. Kennicott, Dis. ii.
↑ 31License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses