John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:28
And they shall no more be a prey to the Heathen ,.... To the Papists, who shall now be perished out of the land, Psalm 10:16 , neither shall, the beasts of the land devour them ; neither that beast which rose up out of the sea, nor that which came up out of the earth, Revelation 13:1 , the pope, both in his secular and ecclesiastic power, being destroyed. So the Targum, "and the kingdoms of the earth shall not consume them;' the antichristian kingdoms: but they, shall dwell... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 34:17-31
The prophet has no more to say to the shepherds, but he has now a message to deliver to the flock. God had ordered him to speak tenderly to them, and to assure them of the mercy he had in store for them. But here he is ordered to make a difference between some and others of them, to separate between the precious and the vile and then to give them a promise of the Messiah, by whom this distinction should be effectually made, partly at his first coming (for for judgment he came into this world,... read more