They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 34:5 in context
Ezekiel 34:2–8
2
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?
3
You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.
4
You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.
5
Selected verse
They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”
7
“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the LORD’s word:
8
“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep,
Continue with Ezekiel 34
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open Ezekiel 34