Ezekiel 34:4
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
Cross References
Matthew 9:36
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 10:6
Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

Matthew 18:12
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

Matthew 18:13
And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

Luke 15:4
"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

1 Peter 5:3
not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

Leviticus 25:43
You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

Isaiah 1:5
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Isaiah 3:7
On that day he will cry aloud: "I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!"

Zechariah 11:16
For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

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diseased

Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.'

Isaiah 56:10
Israel's watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Zechariah 11:15, 16
And the LORD said to me: "Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. . . .

Matthew 9:36
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Hebrews 12:12
Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

sought

Matthew 10:6
Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

Matthew 18:12, 13
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? . . .

Luke 15:4-6
"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? . . .

but with

Exodus 1:13, 14
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly . . .

Jeremiah 22:13
"Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and will not give him his wages,

Matthew 21:35
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Matthew 24:49
And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

James 5:1-6
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail for the misery to come upon you. . . .

1 Peter 5:2, 3
Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God's will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness; . . .

Revelation 13:14-17
Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived. . . .

Revelation 17:5, 6
On her forehead a mysterious name was written: Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth. . . .

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