Ezekiel 34:30-31 ESV

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 34:1-31

II. THE DIVINE PROMISES1. Against the Shepherds of Israel, of the Shepherd Kindness of Jehovah toward His Flock, and of His Servant David (Ch. 34)1And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying: 2Son of man, prophesy upon the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that were 3feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? Ye ate the fat, and clothed yourselves with the wool; ye killed what was fed;... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ezekiel 34:17-31

“Showers of Blessing” Ezekiel 34:17-31 Though God now often seems to make no difference between the oppressors and the oppressed, the time is fast coming when He will make momentous and lasting distinctions, Matthew 25:32-33 . No wrong shall then be unredressed. Note the designation of our Lord as “the One Shepherd,” peerless and matchless in dignity and authority. Once He died to save His flock from the wolf, but He is destined to reign forever as their Great Shepherd in the midst of them,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 34:1-31

The next prophecy dealt ultimately with the one Shepherd. It opened with an indictment of the false shepherds through whom all these evil things had happened to the people. Their sin had been that they had ministered to themselves. Feeding themselves and clothing themselves, they had not fed the sheep, neither had they ministered to the diseased and the sick and the broken and the needy. The result of the failure of the shepherds was that the people were scattered, and had become a prey of the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 34:31

THE STRAY SHEEP‘And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.’ Ezekiel 34:31 I. I have little doubt that when you read in this book of the shepherds who feed themselves, most of you mentally apply the words to the neglectful clergy.—As a matter of fact Ezekiel, in this passage, is not speaking or thinking of the clergy at all, but of the laity. By ‘shepherds’ he means the rich and the ruling. True is the proverb, ‘Like people, like priest.’ A... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 34:30

“And they will know that I, Yahweh their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel are my people, says the Lord Yahweh. And you my sheep, the sheep of my pasture are men, says the Lord Yahweh.” Compare Revelation 21:22-23; Revelation 22:3-5. His people will know the presence of Yahweh. They will know that they are His. And they will know that they are ‘men’, spiritual beings made in His image and likeness, and not brute beasts of the field. Notice the change of phrase. Not ‘they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 34:23-31

Ezekiel 34:23-Obadiah : . In the coming days, while Yahweh will indeed be chief Shepherd, there will still be an earthly shepherd, to correspond to the old order of evil shepherds: in plain words, the monarchy will continue, but the monarch will have a real shepherd heart. His title, “ my servant David,” by no means implies the resurrection of the dead king of the olden times, but only a succession (or the first of a succession) of rulers continuing the Davidic line, or possibly even only... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 34:30

Thus, by these many and great blessings I give them, shall they know, the very heathen shall be convinced. The Lord, who can do what I promise and my people expect. Their God, by covenant from their forefathers. With them; present with them, and reconciled to them, and do bless them. That they, whom they despised and injured, and ere while did make slaves, and used so. My people; my peculiar people above all people in the world; and that though he seemed to have cast him off, and they feared... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 34:31

Now, that neither you nor any else mistake the allegory, note, saith God, this flock of my pasture are not sheep literally, but they are men expressed by this emblem, and these men are those I am a God to, and will be so for ever. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 34:1-31

THE REPROOF OF THE FALSE SHEPHERDS AND A PROMISE OF THE GOOD AND TRUE SHEPHERD (Chap. 34)EXPLANATORY NOTES.—Ezekiel 34:1. “Prophesy against the shepherds.” “The trouble which the prophet here encounters arises from the loss of civil government. The seeming loss, he contends, is a real gain, as the present government was so bad.”—Hengstenberg. Keil designates the turning against the bad shepherds as a foil for the ensuing promise.Ezekiel 34:2. “Woe to the shepherds.” The rulers who sought in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:1-31

Chapter 34Now in chapter 34, God speaks out against those faithless shepherds of Israel. Those men that were the spiritual leaders, those men to whom the people looked for spiritual guidance, who had left the real concept of the ministry. The Lord said to His disciples, "The heathen or the Gentiles do love to exercise lordship over each other, but it shall not be so among you. For whosoever would be chief among you, let him become the servant of all" ( Mark 10:42-44 ). You remember how when... read more