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Scott's Reference Library
Ezekiel 34:11 through Ezekiel 34:16 (NIV)
11“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my
sheep and look after them. 12As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when
he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the
places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. 13I will bring
them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring
them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the
ravines and in all the settlements in the land. 14I will tend them in a good
pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There
they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich
pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15I myself will tend my sheep and have them
lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. 16I will search for the lost and bring
back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the
sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 7-16
The Lord declared that he intended mercy towards the scattered flock. Doubtless
this, in the first place, had reference to the restoration of the Jews. It also
represented the good Shepherd’s tender care of the souls of his people. He finds
them in their days of darkness and ignorance, and brings them to his fold. He
comes to their relief in times of persecution and temptation. He leads them in
the ways of righteousness, and causes them to rest on his love and faithfulness.
The proud and self-sufficient, are enemies of the true gospel and of believers;
against such we must guard. He has rest for disquieted saints, and terror for
presumptuous sinners.