John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 34:29
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown ,.... Or, "for a name"; or, "of a name" F20 מטע לשם "plantato in nemen", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius; "plantam celebri nomine", Tigurine version; "plantam in nomen", Vatablus. ; a famous one: this is to be understood, not of the Jewish nation itself, as the Targum, "and I will raise up for them a plantation for standing;' or which shall continue; but of the Messiah, and not of his incarnation, when he sprung up as a... 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