Ezekiel 34:31

Bishop's Bible

And ye my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture, are men: and I am your God, saith the Lorde God.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"You are my sheep, the sheep of my grassland. You are only human beings, and I am your God." This is what the Lord God said.

New Living Translation
You are my flock, the sheep of my pasture. You are my people, and I am your God. I, the Sovereign Lord , have spoken!"

New American Standard Bible
"As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are mankind, and I am your God," declares the Lord GOD.

New Century Version
You, my human sheep, are the sheep I care for, and I am your God, says the Lord God .'"

New English Translation
And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord .'"

Update Bible Version
And you my sheep, the sheep of my pasture: you are man, [and] I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men, [and] I [am] your God, saith the Lord GOD.

Amplified Bible
"As for you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," says the Lord GOD.

English Standard Version
And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord God ."

World English Bible
You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe ye my flockis ben men, the flockis of my lesewe; and Y am youre Lord God, seith the Lord God.

English Revised Version
And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

Berean Standard Bible
You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,' declares the Lord GOD."

Contemporary English Version
They are my sheep; I am their God, and I take care of them.

American Standard Version
And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘You, my sheep, the sheep in my pasture, are human beings; and I am your God,' says Adonai Elohim ."

Darby Translation
And ye, my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men: I [am] your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.'

King James Version (1611)
And yee my flocke of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

New Life Bible
"You, My sheep, the sheep of My field, are people, and I am your God," says the Lord God.

New Revised Standard
You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture and I am your God, says the Lord God .

Geneva Bible (1587)
And yee my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

George Lamsa Translation
And you are my sheep, the flock of my pasture; you are men, and I am your God, says the LORD.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye, therefore my flock the flock of my pasture are men, - am your God, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you my flocks, the flocks of my pasture are men: and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.

Revised Standard Version
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD."

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.

Good News Translation
"You, my sheep, the flock that I feed, are my people, and I am your God," says the Sovereign Lord .

Christian Standard Bible®
You are my flock, the human flock of my pasture, and I am your God. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”

Hebrew Names Version
You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.

King James Version
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God .

Lexham English Bible
"and you are my flock, the flock of my pasture. You are my people; I am your God," declares the Lord Yahweh.'"

Literal Translation
And you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men. I am your God, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation
And ye, My flock, the flock of My pasture, Men ye [are] -- I [am] your God, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye men are my flocke, ye are the shepe of my pasture: and I am youre God, saieth the LORDE God.

New King James Version
"You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God," says the Lord GOD.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," declares the Lord GOD.

Legacy Standard Bible
"As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," declares Lord Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ And as for you O my sheepe, saith the Lorde God, I wyll iudge betweene cattaile & cattaile, betweene the rammes and the goates. ¹⁸ Seemeth it a smal thing to you to haue eaten vp the good pasture, and to treade downe the residue of your pasture with your feete also? to drinke the deepe waters, and to trouble the rest also with your feete? ¹⁹ Thus my sheepe must be faine to eate the thing that ye haue troden downe with your feete, and to drinke it that ye with your feete haue defiled. ²⁰ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God vnto them: Beholde I [euen] I wyll iudge betweene the fat cattaile and the leane cattaile, ²¹ Forsomuch as with side and shoulder ye haue shoued, and with your hornes haue pushed all the weake, till ye haue scattered them abroade. ²² I wyll saue my sheepe, so that they shal no more be spoyled, yea I wil iudge betweene cattaile and cattaile. ²³ I wyll set vp ouer them a shepheard, and he shall feede them, euen my seruaunt Dauid, he shall feede them, & he shalbe their shepheard. ²⁴ And I the Lorde wyll be their God, and my seruaunt Dauid shalbe their prince: euen I the Lorde haue spoken it. ²⁵ Moreouer I wyll make a couenaunt of peace with them, & cause euil beastes to ceasse out of the lande: so that they may dwell safely in the wildernesse, and sleepe in the woods. ²⁶ And I wyll set them [as] a blessing euen rounde about my hill, and I wyll cause raine to come downe in due season, [and] there shalbe raine of blessing.

Bible Verse Review
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ye my: Ezekiel 36:38, Psalms 78:52, Psalms 80:1, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 100:3, Isaiah 40:11, Micah 7:14, Luke 12:32, John 10:11, John 10:16, John 10:26-30, John 20:15-17, Acts 20:28, 1 Peter 5:2, 1 Peter 5:3

I: Ezekiel 34:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 74:1 - the sheep Proverbs 27:23 - diligent Jeremiah 13:17 - because Jeremiah 31:1 - will Ezekiel 28:26 - and they Ezekiel 34:8 - prey Micah 2:12 - I will put Zechariah 9:16 - shall save Luke 15:4 - having John 10:7 - the sheep

Cross-References

Genesis 34:13
But the sonnes of Iacob aunswered to Sichem and Hemor his father, talking amongest themselues deceiptfully, because he had defiled Diua their sister.

Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their wrath, for it was shamelesse, and their fiercenesse, for it was cruell: I wyll deuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Proverbs 6:34
For the ielousie and wrath of the man wyll not be entreated,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men,.... This is observed, to show that all that had been said in this chapter concerning sheep, and a flock of sheep, was to be understood, not in a literal sense, but in a figurative one, of such as were rational and spiritual persons; a set of men whom the Lord had chosen, and separated from others, as his peculiar flock; and whom he took a special care of, and led them to, and fed them in, green pastures of his own providing; they are the souls of men that Christ is the Shepherd and Bishop of, 1 Peter 2:25. The Talmudists u frequently make use of this text, to prove that Israelites are only called men, and not the Gentiles; see

Matthew 15:26

and I am your God, saith the Lord God; which is often repeated for the certainty of it, because a blessing of the greatest importance, and which includes all others in it; see Ezekiel 34:24.

u T. Bab. Yebamot, fol. 61. 1. Bava Metzia, fol. 114. 2. & Ceritot, fol. 6. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yahweh having promised to be a Ruler of His people, the administration of the divine kingdom is now described, as carried on by One King, the representative of David, whose dominion should fulfill all the promises originally made to the man after God’s own heart. Ezekiel does not so much add to, as explain and develope, the original promise; and as the complete fulfillment of the spiritual blessings, which the prophets were guided to proclaim, was manifestly never realized in any temporal prosperity of the Jews, and never could and never can be realized in any earthly kingdom, we recognize throughout the Sacred Volume the one subject of all prophecy - the Righteous King, the Anointed Prince, the Son and the Lord of David.

Ezekiel 34:23

One shepherd - One, as ruling over an undivided people, the distinction between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah having been done away.

My servant David - David was a fit type of the True King because he was a true and faithful servant of Yahweh. That which David was partially and imperfectly, Christ is in full perfection (compare Matthew 12:18; John 5:30; Hebrews 10:7.)

Ezekiel 34:26

The blessings here foretold are especially those of the old covenant. The wilderness (or, pasture-country) and the woods, the places most exposed to beasts and birds of prey, become places of security. Under the new covenant Sion and the hills around are representative of God’s Church; and temporal blessings are typical of the blessings showered down upon Christ’s Church by Him who has vanquished the powers of evil.

Ezekiel 34:29

A plant - Equivalent to the “Branch,” under which name Isaiah and Jeremiah prophesy of the Messiah. The contrast in this verse to hunger seems to favor the idea that the “plant” was for food, i. e., spiritual food, and in this sense also, applicable to the Messiah (compare John 6:35.)

The shame of the pagan - The shameful reproaches with which the pagan assail them.

Ezekiel 34:31

Translate “Ye are my flock, the flock of my pasture (compare Jeremiah 23:1); ye are men, and I am your God.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 34:31. And ye my flock — That is, under the allegory of a flock of sheep, I point out men; under that of a pasture, my Church, and under that of a shepherd, the Messiah, through whom I am become your God. And he who is your God is אדני יהוה Adonai Jehovah, the self-existent Being; the Governor and Director, as well as the Saviour and Judge of men.