¹ 耶和华的话临到我说：

² 人子啊，你要向以色列的牧人发预言，攻击他们，说，主耶和华如此说：祸哉！以色列的牧人只知牧养自己。牧人岂不当牧养群羊麽？

³ 你们吃脂油、穿羊毛、宰肥壮的，却不牧养群羊。

⁴ 瘦弱的，你们没有养壮；有病的，你们没有医治；受伤的，你们没有缠裹；被逐的，你们没有领回；失丧的，你们没有寻找；但用强暴严严地辖制。

⁵ 因无牧人，羊就分散；既分散，便作了一切野兽的食物。

⁶ 我的羊在诸山间、在各高冈上流离，在全地上分散，无人去寻，无人去找。

⁷ 所以，你们这些牧人要听耶和华的话。

⁸ 主耶和华说：我指着我的永生起誓，我的羊因无牧人就成为掠物，也作了一切野兽的食物。我的牧人不寻找我的羊；这些牧人只知牧养自己，并不牧养我的羊。

⁹ 所以你们这些牧人要听耶和华的话。

¹⁰ 主耶和华如此说：我必与牧人为敌，必向他们的手追讨我的羊，使他们不再牧放群羊；牧人也不再牧养自己。我必救我的羊脱离他们的口，不再作他们的食物。

¹¹ 主耶和华如此说：看哪，我必亲自寻找我的羊，将他们寻见。

¹² 牧人在羊群四散的日子怎样寻找他的羊，我必照样寻找我的羊。这些羊在密云黑暗的日子散到各处，我必从那里救回他们来。

¹³ 我必从万民中领出他们，从各国内聚集他们，引导他们归回故土，也必在以色列山上─一切溪水旁边、境内一切可居之处─牧养他们。

¹⁴ 我必在美好的草场牧养他们。他们的圈必在以色列高处的山上，他们必在佳美之圈中躺卧，也在以色列山肥美的草场吃草。

¹⁵ 主耶和华说：我必亲自作我羊的牧人，使他们得以躺卧。

¹⁶ 失丧的，我必寻找；被逐的，我必领回；受伤的，我必缠裹；有病的，我必医治；只是肥的壮的，我必除灭，也要秉公牧养他们。

¹⁷ 我的羊群哪，论到你们，主耶和华如此说：我必在羊与羊中间、公绵羊与公山羊中间施行判断。

¹⁸ 你们这些肥壮的羊，在美好的草场吃草还以为小事麽？剩下的草，你们竟用蹄践踏了；你们喝清水，剩下的水，你们竟用蹄搅浑了。

¹⁹ 至於我的羊，只得吃你们所践踏的，喝你们所搅浑的。

²⁰ 所以，主耶和华如此说：我必在肥羊和瘦羊中间施行判断。

²¹ 因为你们用胁用肩拥挤一切瘦弱的，又用角抵触，以致使他们四散。

²² 所以，我必拯救我的群羊不再作掠物；我也必在羊和羊中间施行判断。

²³ 我必立一牧人照管他们，牧养他们，就是我的仆人大卫。他必牧养他们，作他们的牧人。

²⁴ 我─耶和华必作他们的神，我的仆人大卫必在他们中间作王。这是耶和华说的。

²⁵ 我必与他们立平安的约，使恶兽从境内断绝，他们就必安居在旷野，躺卧在林中。

²⁶ 我必使他们与我山的四围成为福源，我也必叫时雨落下，必有福如甘霖而降。

²⁷ 田野的树必结果，地也必有出产；他们必在故土安然居住。我折断他们所负的轭，救他们脱离那以他们为奴之人的手；那时，他们就知道我是耶和华。

²⁸ 他们必不再作外邦人的掠物，地上的野兽也不再吞吃他们；却要安然居住，无人惊吓。

²⁹ 我必给他们兴起有名的植物；他们在境内不再为饥荒所灭，也不再受外邦人的羞辱，

³⁰ 必知道我、耶和华─他们的神是与他们同在的，并知道他们─以色列家是我的民。这是主耶和华说的。

³¹ 你们作我的羊，我草场上的羊，乃是以色列人，我也是你们的神。这是主耶和华说的。

¹ These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

² Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

³ the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:

⁴ but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

⁵ I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

⁶ You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

⁷ When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:

⁸ and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

⁹ Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

¹⁰ You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

¹¹ your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

¹² that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;

¹³ that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁴ Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,

¹⁵ but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day

¹⁶ (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

¹⁷ and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

¹⁸ lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;

¹⁹ and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

²⁰ Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

²¹ Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

²² The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;

²³ [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

²⁴ even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

²⁵ Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

²⁶ and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:

²⁷ therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;

²⁸ and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day."

²⁹ The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.