Ezekiel 34:19
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New International Version (©2011)
Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Why must my flock eat what you have trampled down and drink water you have fouled?

English Standard Version (©2001)
And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'As for My flock, they must eat what you tread down with your feet and drink what you foul with your feet!'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Yet My flock has to feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied."

International Standard Version (©2012)
My flock is grazing on what you've been treading down with your feet and they're drinking what you've been making muddy with your feet!'

NET Bible (©2006)
As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Must my sheep eat what your feet have trampled and drink what your feet have muddied?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

American King James Version
And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

American Standard Version
And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my sheep were fed with that which you had trodden with your feet: and they drank what your feet had troubled.

Darby Bible Translation
And my sheep have to eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and to drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

English Revised Version
And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

World English Bible
As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

Young's Literal Translation
And My flock the trodden thing of your feet consumeth, And the trampled thing of your feet drinketh?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:17-31 The whole nation seemed to be the Lord's flock, yet they were very different characters; but he knew how to distinguish between them. By good pastures and deep waters, are meant the pure word of God and the dispensing of justice. The latter verses, 23-31, prophesy of Christ, and of the most glorious times of his church on earth. Under Him, as the good Shepherd, the church would be a blessing to all around. Christ, though excellent in himself, was as a tender plant out of a dry ground. Being the Tree of life, bearing all the fruits of salvation, he yields spiritual food to the souls of his people. Our constant desire and prayer should be, that there may be showers of blessings in every place where the truth of Christ is preached; and that all who profess the gospel may be filled with fruits of righteousness.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet,.... They are forced to do it, not being able to come at any thing else; being as sheep without a shepherd, or worse:

and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet; which, as it cannot be agreeable and relishing, so neither wholesome; as the leaven of the Scribes and Pharisees; the traditions of the elders; the false doctrines of false teachers, whose words eat as do a canker. The Targum of the whole verse is,

"and my people eat the residue of the food of your ministers, and drink the residue of the drink of your ministers.''

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

19. they eat—scantily.

they drink—sorrowfully.

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The Good Shepherd
…18Seems it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet? 19And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. 20Therefore thus said the Lord GOD to them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. …

Proverbs 25:26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked.
Ezekiel 34:18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
Ezekiel 34:20 "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.