Ezekiel 34:11

Hebrew Names Version

For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘For this is what the Lord God says: See, I myself will search for my flock and look for them.

King James Version
For thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

English Standard Version
"For thus says the Lord God : Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

New American Standard Bible
For the Lord GOD says this: "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and look after them.

New Century Version
"‘This is what the Lord God says: I, myself, will search for my sheep and take care of them.

Amplified Bible
For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

Legacy Standard Bible
For thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I Myself will seek My sheep and care for them.

Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord God then said: I will look for my sheep and take care of them myself,

Complete Jewish Bible
"‘For here is what Adonai Elohim says: "I am taking over! I will search for my sheep and look after them, myself.

Darby Translation
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold I, [even] I, will both search for my sheep, and tend them.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord God says, "I myself will be their Shepherd. I will search for my sheep and take care of them.

George Lamsa Translation
For thus says the LORD God: Behold, I, even I, will search for my sheep and seek them out.

Good News Translation
"I, the Sovereign Lord , tell you that I myself will look for my sheep and take care of them

Lexham English Bible
"‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I, even I, will seek my flock, and I will look after them,

Literal Translation
For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep, and seek them out.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I will loke to my shepe myselff, and seke them.

American Standard Version
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Bible in Basic English
For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, here am I, and I will search for My sheep, and seek them out.

King James Version (1611)
For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, euen I will both search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thus saith the Lorde God: behold, I [euen] I wyll loke to my sheepe my selfe, and seeke them out.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will seek out my sheep, and will visit them.

English Revised Version
For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

World English Bible
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord God seith these thingis, Lo! Y my silf schal seke my scheep, and Y schal visite hem.

Update Bible Version
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [even] I, will both search for my sheep, and seek them out.

New English Translation
"‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

New King James Version
"For thus says the Lord GOD: "Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

New Living Translation
"For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search and find my sheep.

New Life Bible
For the Lord God says, "I Myself will look for My sheep and find them.

New Revised Standard
For thus says the Lord God : I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Thus saith My Lord. Yahweh,- Here am I myself Therefore will I inquire after my flock and seek them out:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself will seek my sheep, and will visit them.

Revised Standard Version
"For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Young's Literal Translation
For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I -- even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out.

THE MESSAGE
"‘ God , the Master, says: From now on, I myself am the shepherd. I'm going looking for them. As shepherds go after their flocks when they get scattered, I'm going after my sheep. I'll rescue them from all the places they've been scattered to in the storms. I'll bring them back from foreign peoples, gather them from foreign countries, and bring them back to their home country. I'll feed them on the mountains of Israel, along the streams, among their own people. I'll lead them into lush pasture so they can roam the mountain pastures of Israel, graze at leisure, feed in the rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. And I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep. I myself will make sure they get plenty of rest. I'll go after the lost, I'll collect the strays, I'll doctor the injured, I'll build up the weak ones and oversee the strong ones so they're not exploited.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: ⁸ 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, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't fed my sheep; ⁹ therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: ¹⁰ Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. ¹¹ For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. ¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. ¹³ I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Yisra'el, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. ¹⁴ I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Yisra'el shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Yisra'el. ¹⁵ I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord GOD. ¹⁶ 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 the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I: Ezekiel 5:8, Ezekiel 6:3, Genesis 6:17, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 48:15, Isaiah 51:12, Hosea 5:14

search: Psalms 23:1-3, Psalms 80:1, Psalms 119:176, Isaiah 40:10, Isaiah 40:11, Isaiah 56:8, Jeremiah 23:3, Jeremiah 31:8, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:12, Luke 19:10, John 10:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:17 - behold Numbers 18:6 - And I Numbers 27:16 - set a man Psalms 78:52 - like a Psalms 100:3 - we are his Isaiah 27:3 - I the Isaiah 62:12 - Sought out Jeremiah 3:14 - one of a city Jeremiah 23:39 - even I Jeremiah 29:11 - thoughts Ezekiel 34:16 - seek that Micah 2:12 - I will put Luke 15:4 - having John 10:3 - and leadeth 1 Peter 2:25 - the Shepherd

Cross-References

Genesis 18:3
and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

Genesis 33:15
Esav said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord God,.... Since the shepherds are so negligent, careless, and cruel:

behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out; as he did the Jews, in all countries where they were, so his elect in all places where they are: he is the omniscient God, and knows them that are his, and can call his own sheep by name; he knows the places where they are; for he has fixed the bounds of their habitation, and was delighting himself in the habitable parts of the earth, where he knew they would be, even before the world was; he knows the time of finding them, which he himself has fixed, and which is a time of love, and a time of life; and he can distinguish them, notwithstanding the filth they have contracted by their sins and transgressions, and from the crowd they are among: and he is the omnipotent God, that can take them out of what hands soever they may be, or in whatsoever state and condition they are; though in the hands of Satan, in the paws of that devouring lion, and in a pit wherein is no water, in a horrible pit, the mire and clay: he that says this is the owner and proprietor of them; and that is the reason why he searches and seeks them out; and which he repeats for the confirmation of it, and to show the vehemence of his affection towards them, and how bent he is upon it, and how eager and resolute in his pursuit after them: he searches for his chosen people among the ruins of Adam's fall, in whom they fell as others; among the men of the world, where they are; among the dust of the earth, where his lost piece of silver and those pearls lie; among the mountains of sin or self-righteousness, where these sheep are wandering; and he never leaves off seeking and searching till he has found them: and what moves him to it is not their nature, for they are no better than others; nor their numbers, for they are few; but his love to them, the relation he stands in to them as their shepherd, his interest and property in them, his covenant on their account, and also his own glory.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yahweh is the shepherd of His people. He will do all which the shepherds should have done and did not. These promises - partially fulfilled in the return from Babylon, and in the subsequent prosperity under the Maccabees - point to the ingathering of all nations in the Church of Christ the Good Shepherd. Compare Matthew 18:11 : John 10:1-18; Romans 9:25-33.