the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Ezekiel 34:3
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You eat the fat sheep and use their wool to make clothes for yourselves. You kill the fat sheep, but you don't feed the flock.
You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the best animals, but you let your flocks starve.
"You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.
You eat the milk curds, and you clothe yourselves with the wool. You kill the fat sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!
You eat the milk, and you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
"You eat the fat [the choicest of meat], and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the best of the livestock, but you do not feed the flock.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
Ye eeten mylk, and weren hilid with wollis, and ye killiden that that was fat; but ye fedden not my floc.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
You drink their milk and use their wool to make your clothes. Then you butcher the best ones for food. But you don't take care of the flock!
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
You eat the choice meat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, and you slaughter the best of the herd; but you don't feed the sheep!
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool; ye kill them that are fattened: [but] ye feed not the flock.
Ye did eat the fat, and ye clothed you with the wool, ye killed the fatlings; but ye fed not the sheep.
Yee eate the fat, and ye clothe you with the wooll, yee kill them that are fed: but ye feede not the flocke.
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool. You kill the fat sheep without feeding the flock.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.
Yee eate the fat, and yee clothe you with the wooll: yee kill them that are fed, but ye feede not the sheepe.
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool and sacrifice the fat ones; but you do not feed the flock.
The milk, ye do eat And with the wool, ye do clothe your- selves, The well-fed, ye do sacrifice, The flock, ye do not tend
You ate the milk, and you clothed yourselves with the wool, and you killed that which was fat: but my flock you did not feed.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.
Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep.
You drink the milk, wear clothes made from the wool, and kill and eat the finest sheep. But you never tend the sheep.
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.
You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
The fat you eat, and you clothe yourself with the wool; the well-nourished animals you slaughter, but you do not feed the flock.
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you sacrifice the fat ones, and you do not feed the flock.
The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.
Ye haue eaten vp the fatte, ye haue clothed you with the woll: the best fedde haue ye slayne, but ye flocke haue ye not norished:
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.
"You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you sacrifice the fat sheep without shepherding the flock.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
eat: Isaiah 56:11, Isaiah 56:12, Zechariah 11:5, Zechariah 11:16
ye kill: Ezekiel 19:3, Ezekiel 19:6, Ezekiel 22:25-28, Ezekiel 33:25, Ezekiel 33:26, 1 Kings 21:13-16, 2 Kings 21:16, Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 22:17, Lamentations 4:13, Micah 3:1-3, Zephaniah 3:3
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 34:8 - the shepherds Ezekiel 34:18 - to have Ezekiel 34:21 - ye have Ezekiel 46:18 - my people Micah 3:2 - pluck Matthew 9:36 - as Matthew 24:49 - and to Luke 12:42 - to give Luke 12:45 - to beat Acts 20:28 - to feed Acts 20:29 - not Philippians 3:19 - whose God 1 Peter 5:2 - Feed
Cross-References
And they lift vp their voyces, & wept againe: and Orpha kissed her mother in lawe, but Ruth abode still by her.
And whe he had made an end of speaking vnto Saul, the soule of Ionathan was knit with the soule of Dauid, and Ionathan loued him as his owne soule.
Nowe therfore vp, and come out, and speake cofortably vnto thy seruauntes: For I sweare by the Lorde, except thou come out, there will not tary one man with thee this night, and that wilbe worse vnto thee, then all the euyll that fell on thee from thy youth vnto this houre.
And Hezekia spake comfortablie vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge [to sing] vnto the Lorde: and they did eate throughout that feast seuen dayes long, and offered peace offringes, and thanked the Lorde God of their fathers.
Comfort Hierusalem at the heart, and tell her, that her trauayle is at an ende, that her offence is pardoned, that she hath receaued at the Lordes hande sufficient correction for all her sinnes.
Wherefore beholde, I wyll allure her and bryng her into the wildernesse, and speake frendly vnto her.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye eat the fat,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it, "the milk"; the words for fat and milk differ only in the points; and this was not unlawful, for
who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 1 Corinthians 9:7, provided it was done with moderation, that they ate some, but not all; but these rulers milked their subjects too much, oppressed them with heavy taxes, and got their substance into their own hands. The Targum is,
"ye eat the good;''
they got possessed of the best of their substance; as did also their ecclesiastical rulers, who were greedy shepherds, that could never have enough; they looked for their gain from their quarter, and even devoured widows' houses, Isaiah 56:11:
ye clothe you with the wool: the pure wool, as the Targum, the finest of it; they fleeced the flock, and stripped the people of their riches; and minded nothing but their own backs and bellies:
ye kill them that are fed; or, that "are fat" q; the richest of the people they brought accusations and charges against for capital crimes; and so put them to death under a colour of justice, that they, might get their estates into their hands:
but ye feed not the flock; did not govern the people well, by doing justice and judgment among men, as became civil magistrates; did not deliver out words of faith and sound doctrine, to feed the souls of men with, which is the duty of those that preside in the church of God.
q הבריאה "quod pingue est", Vatablus, Bochartus; "pinguem", Cocceius, Starckius. So Ben Melech.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 34:3. Ye eat the fat — I think החלב hacheleb should be translated the milk; and so most of the Versions understand it. Or they lived on the fat sheep, and took the wool of all.
"The priests," says Calmet, "ate the tithes, the first-fruits, and the offerings of the people; the princes received the tributes and imposts; and instead of instructing and protecting them, the latter took away their lives by the cruelties they practiced against them: the former destroyed their souls by the poison of their doctrine, and by their bad example. The fat sheep point out the rich, to whom these pastors often disguised the truth, by a cruel condescension and complaisance."
