1 Veio a mim esta palavra do Senhor:
2 "Filho do homem, profetize contra os pastores de Israel; profetize e diga-lhes: ‘Assim diz o Soberano Senhor: Ai dos pastores de Israel que só cuidam de si mesmos! Acaso os pastores não deveriam cuidar do rebanho?
3 Vocês comem a coalhada, vestem-se de lã e abatem os melhores animais, mas não tomam conta do rebanho.
4 Vocês não fortaleceram a fraca nem curaram a doente nem enfaixaram a ferida. Vocês não trouxeram de volta as desviadas nem procuraram as perdidas. Vocês têm dominado sobre elas com dureza e brutalidade.
5 Por isso elas estão dispersas, porque não há pastor algum, e, quando foram dispersas, elas se tornaram comida de todos os animais selvagens.
6 As minhas ovelhas vaguearam por todos os montes e por todas as altas colinas. Elas foram dispersas por toda a terra, e ninguém se preocupou com elas nem as procurou.
7 " ‘Por isso, pastores, ouçam a palavra do Senhor:
8 Juro pela minha vida, palavra do Soberano Senhor, que visto que o meu rebanho ficou sem pastor, foi saqueado e se tornou comida de todos os animais selvagens, e uma vez que os meus pastores não se preocuparam com o meu rebanho, mas cuidaram de si mesmos em vez de cuidarem do rebanho,
9 ouçam a palavra do Senhor, ó pastores:
10 Assim diz o Soberano Senhor: Estou contra os pastores e os considerarei responsáveis pelo meu rebanho. Eu lhes tirarei a função de apascentar o rebanho para que os pastores não mais se alimentem a si mesmos. Livrarei o meu rebanho da boca deles, e ele não lhes servirá mais de comida.
11 " ‘Porque assim diz o Soberano Senhor: Eu mesmo buscarei as minhas ovelhas e delas cuidarei.
12 Assim como o pastor busca as ovelhas dispersas quando está cuidando do rebanho, também tomarei conta de minhas ovelhas. Eu as resgatarei de todos os lugares para onde foram dispersas num dia de nuvens e de trevas.
13 Eu as farei sair das outras nações e as reunirei, trazendo-as dos outros povos para a sua própria terra. E as apascentarei nos montes de Israel, nos vales e em todos os povoados do país.
14 Tomarei conta delas numa boa pastagem, e os altos dos montes de Israel serão a terra onde pastarão; ali se alimentarão num rico pasto nos montes de Israel.
15 Eu mesmo tomarei conta das minhas ovelhas e as farei deitar-se, palavra do Soberano Senhor.
16 Procurarei as perdidas e trarei de volta as desviadas. Enfaixarei a ferida e fortalecerei a fraca, mas a rebelde e forte, eu a destruirei. Apascentarei o rebanho com justiça.
17 " ‘Quanto a você, meu rebanho, assim diz o Soberano Senhor: Julgarei entre uma ovelha e outra, e entre carneiros e bodes.
18 Não lhes basta comerem em boa pastagem? Deverão também pisotear o restante da pastagem? Não lhes basta beberem água límpida? Deverão também enlamear o restante com os pés?
19 Deverá o meu rebanho alimentar-se daquilo que vocês pisotearam e beber daquilo que vocês enlamearam com os pés?
20 " ‘Por isso assim diz o Soberano Senhor a eles: Vejam, eu mesmo julgarei entre a ovelha gorda e a magra.
21 Pois vocês forçaram passagem com o corpo e com o ombro, empurrando todas as ovelhas fracas com os chifres até expulsá-las,
22 eu salvarei o meu rebanho, e elas não serão mais saqueadas. Julgarei entre uma ovelha e outra.
23 Porei sobre elas um pastor, o meu servo Davi, e ele cuidará delas; cuidará delas e será o seu pastor.
24 Eu, o Senhor, serei o seu Deus, e o meu servo Davi será o líder no meio delas. Eu, o Senhor, falei.
25 " ‘Farei uma aliança de paz com elas e deixarei a terra livre de animais selvagens para que possam, com segurança, viver no deserto e dormir nas florestas.
26 Eu as abençoarei e abençoarei os lugares em torno da minha colina. Na estação própria farei descer chuva; haverá chuvas de bênçãos.
27 As árvores do campo produzirão o seu fruto, e a terra produzirá a sua safra; o povo estará seguro na terra. Eles saberão que eu sou o Senhor, quando eu quebrar as cangas de seu jugo e livrá-los das mãos daqueles que os escravizaram.
28 Eles não serão mais saqueados pelas nações, nem os animais selvagens os devorarão. Viverão em segurança, e ninguém lhes causará medo.
29 Eu lhes darei uma terra famosa por suas colheitas, e eles não serão mais vítimas de fome na terra nem carregarão a zombaria das nações.
30 Então eles saberão que eu, o Senhor, o seu Deus, estou com eles, e que eles, a nação de Israel, são meu povo, palavra do Soberano Senhor.
31 Vocês, minhas ovelhas, ovelhas da minha pastagem, são o meu povo, e eu sou o Deus de vocês, palavra do Soberano Senhor’ ".
1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep. 4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them. 5 And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: 8 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep; 9 therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah: 10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19 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.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more. 30 And they shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. 31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.