Ezekiel Chapter 34 verse 11 Holy Bible
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
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For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.
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For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold I, [even] I, will both search for my sheep, and tend them.
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
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For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
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For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I -- even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out.
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Ezekiel 34 : 11 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Behold, I, even I, etc. The words, as the last reference shows, and as we find in vers. 23-31, do not exclude, rather they imply, human instrumentality, just us our Lord's do in Matthew 18:12 and Luke 15:4-7; but they reveal the truth that Jehovah is the true Shepherd of his people. Not the sweet psalmist of Israel only, but the lowest outcast, might use the language of Psalm 23, and say, "The Lord is my Shepherd." He will gather the sheep that have been scattered in the "cloudy and dark day," the day of the Lord's judgment (Ezekiel 30:3). For the prophet the words pointed to that vision of a restored Israel, which was dominant in the expectations both of Isaiah (or the Deutero-Isaiah) in Ezekiel 40-48, and in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 33:12-18), which floated before the minds of the apostles (Acts 1:6), and to which even St. Paul looked forward as the solution of the great problems of the world's history (Romans 9-11.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Behold, I, even I.--The rich promises of the following verses are all essentially contained in this, that Jehovah Himself will be the Shepherd of His flock. It is the same assurance as that given by the Saviour in John 10, and here, as there, must necessarily be understood spiritually. In the following verses many promises are given of an earthly and temporary character, and these were fulfilled partly in the. restoration from exile, partly in the glorious deliverance of the Church from its foes under the Maccabees. But these deliverances themselves were but types of the more glorious Messianic deliverance of the future, and necessary means whereby it was secured. The promise of that deliverance could only be brought at all within the comprehension of the people by setting it forth in earthly language, just as even now it is impossible for us to understand the glories of the Church triumphant, except by the aid of the sensible images in which Scripture has portrayed them. Far less was it possible to this people, so much behind us in spiritual education and enlightenment.
