The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 157
157. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 34
1-4 Respecting teachers who regard their own good only, and not the good of the church. (2)
5-6 In consequence those who are of the church come into an evil life. (2)
7-10 Being such, everything of the church is taken from them. (3)
11-16 When the Lord comes into the world He will gather the church together, and will teach it Divine truths. (11, 11)
16-17 The evil among them He will separate. (3, 11)
18-20 Evil shepherds destroy everything of the church, (3)
21 and destroy the simple. (3, 6)
22-25 When the Lord comes He will teach and save these. (1, 11)
26-31 He will both teach them and protect them from falsities, and they will acknowledge Him. (11)
Ezekiel 34:7-10
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Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
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As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;
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therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
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Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
