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Ezekiel 34:4

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The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

The diseased {H2470} have ye not strengthened {H2388}, neither have ye healed {H7495} that which was sick {H2470}, neither have ye bound up {H2280} that which was broken {H7665}, neither have ye brought again {H7725} that which was driven away {H5080}, neither have ye sought {H1245} that which was lost {H6}; but with force {H2394} and with cruelty {H6531} have ye ruled {H7287} them.

You don't strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bandage the broken, bring back the outcasts or seek the lost; on the contrary, you tyrannize them with crushing force.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 18:12 (10 votes)

    How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

  • Matthew 18:13 (10 votes)

    And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that [sheep], than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

  • Ezekiel 34:16 (9 votes)

    I will seek that which was lost, and bring again 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 with judgment.

  • Matthew 9:36 (9 votes)

    But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

  • Matthew 10:6 (8 votes)

    But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • Zechariah 11:15 (7 votes)

    ¶ And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

  • Zechariah 11:16 (7 votes)

    For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, [which] shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.