Ezekiel 34:3
New International Version
You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.

New Living Translation
You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the best animals, but you let your flocks starve.

English Standard Version
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

Berean Standard Bible
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

King James Bible
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

New King James Version
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.

New American Standard Bible
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.

NASB 1995
“You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.

NASB 1977
“You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.

Legacy Standard Bible
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you sacrifice the fat sheep without shepherding the flock.

Amplified Bible
You eat the fat [the choicest of meat], and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the best of the livestock, but you do not feed the flock.

Christian Standard Bible
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.

American Standard Version
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You eat the fat males and you wear their wool, and you slaughter fatlings, and you do not feed the sheep

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep.

Contemporary English Version
You drink their milk and use their wool to make your clothes. Then you butcher the best ones for food. But you don't take care of the flock!

Douay-Rheims Bible
You ate the milk, end you clothed yourselves with the wool, and you killed that which was fat: but my flock you did not feed.

English Revised Version
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You eat the best parts of the sheep, dress in the wool, and butcher the finest sheep. Yet, you don't take care of the sheep.

Good News Translation
You drink the milk, wear clothes made from the wool, and kill and eat the finest sheep. But you never tend the sheep.

International Standard Version
You're eating the best parts, clothing yourselves with the wool, and slaughtering the home-grown sheep without having fed the sheep!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye did eat the fat, and ye clothed you with the wool, ye killed the fatlings; but ye fed not the sheep.

Literal Standard Version
You eat the fat, and you put on the wool, | You slaughter the fed one, | You do not feed the flock.

Majority Standard Bible
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

New American Bible
You consumed milk, wore wool, and slaughtered fatlings, but the flock you did not pasture.

NET Bible
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!

New Revised Standard Version
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.

New Heart English Bible
You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe yourselves with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

World English Bible
You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.

Young's Literal Translation
The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Prophecy Against Israel's Shepherds
2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? 3 You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock. 4You 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
Ezekiel 22:25
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

Amos 6:4
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

Zechariah 11:5
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!' Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock.

eat

Isaiah 56:11,12
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter…

Zechariah 11:5,16
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not…

ye kill

Ezekiel 19:3,6
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men…

Ezekiel 22:25-28
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof…

Ezekiel 33:25,26
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? …

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Ezekiel 34
1. A reproof of the shepherds
7. God's judgment against them
11. His providence over his flock
20. The kingdom of Christ














Verse 3. - Ye eat the fat. The LXX. and the Vulgate, following a different reading, give milk, and, as "killing" comes in the next clause, this is probably preferable (comp. 1 Corinthians 9:7; Isaiah 7:22).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You eat
תֹּאכֵ֙לוּ֙ (tō·ḵê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the fat,
הַחֵ֤לֶב (ha·ḥê·leḇ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2459: Fat, richest, choice part

wear
תִּלְבָּ֔שׁוּ (til·bā·šū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3847: Wrap around, to put on a, garment, clothe

the wool,
הַצֶּ֣מֶר (haṣ·ṣe·mer)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6785: Wool

and butcher
תִּזְבָּ֑חוּ (tiz·bā·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2076: To slaughter for sacrifice

the fattened sheep,
הַבְּרִיאָ֖ה (hab·bə·rî·’āh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 1277: Fatted, plump

but you do not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

feed
תִרְעֽוּ׃ (ṯir·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

the flock.
הַצֹּ֖אן (haṣ·ṣōn)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock


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