Ezekiel 34:14
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
KJV
In pascuis uberrimis pascam eas, et in montibus excelsis Israël erunt pascua earum : ibi requiescent in herbis virentibus, et in pascuis pinguibus pascentur super montes Israël.
Vulgate
ἐν νομῇ ἀγαθῇ βοσκήσω αὐτούς, ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ ὑψηλῷ Ἰσραήλ. καὶ ἔσονται αἱ μάνδραι αὐτῶν ἐκεῖ καὶ κοιμηθήσονται, καὶ ἐκεῖ ἀναπαύσονται ἐν τρυφῇ ἀγαθῇ, καὶ ἐν νομῇ πίονι βοσκηθήσονται ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων Ἰσραήλ.
LXX
I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
ASV
בְּ/מִרְעֶה טּוֹב֙ אֶרְעֶ֣ה אֹתָ֔/ם וּ/בְ/הָרֵ֥י מְרֽוֹם יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִהְיֶ֣ה נְוֵ/הֶ֑ם שָׁ֤ם תִּרְבַּ֨צְנָה֙ בְּ/נָ֣וֶה טּ֔וֹב וּ/מִרְעֶ֥ה שָׁמֵ֛ן תִּרְעֶ֖ינָה אֶל הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Hebrew
Open in reader with connections →
In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§754"The Church is, accordingly, a sheepfold, the sole and necessary gateway to which is Christ. It is also the flock of which God himself foretold that he would be the shepherd, and whose sheep, even though governed by human shepherds, are unfailingly nourished and led by Christ himself, the Good Shepherd and Prince of Shepherds, who gave his life for his sheep.146
Cross-references
- 1Thess 2:7 — But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
- Eph 5:29 — For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
- Ezek 6:2 — Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
- Ezek 34:27 — And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their
- Ezek 36:29 — I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
- Isa 25:6 — And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Isa 30:23 — Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pa
- Isa 40:11 — He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
- Jer 31:12 — Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and
- Jer 31:25 — For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
- Jer 33:12 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
- Jer 50:6 — My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace
- John 10:9 — I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
- Num 13:20 — And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes
- Ps 23:1 — The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Ps 31:8 — And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
- Rev 7:16 — They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.