Ezekiel 34:4
34:4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness 1 you have ruled over them.
Ezekiel 34:6
34:6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.
Ezekiel 34:18-19
34:18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?
34:19 As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!
Ezekiel 34:21
34:21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad, 2
1 tn The term translated “harshness” is used to describe the oppression the Israelites suffered as slaves in Egypt (Exod 1:13).
2 tn Heb “outside.”