Ezequiel 34

1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? 3 You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. 4 You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. 5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought."

7 "‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word: 8 "As I live," says the Lord Yahweh, "surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep, 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word!" 10 The Lord Yahweh says: "Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them."

11 "‘For the Lord Yahweh says: "Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on 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 their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down," says the Lord Yahweh. 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 I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice."’

17 "As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet? 19 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.’

20 "Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad, 22 therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. 24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

25 "‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing. 27 The tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. 28 They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land, and not bear the shame of the nations any more. 30 They will know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh. 31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh."

Ngā Hēpara Teka o Īharaira

1 I puta mai anō te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 2 "E te tama a te tangata, poropititia he hē mō ngā hēpara o Īharaira, poropititia, mea atu ki a rātou, arā ki ngā hēpara: Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā mō ngā hēpara: Auē te mate mō ngā hēpara o Īharaira, e whāngai nei i a rātou anō! He teka ianei me whāngai te kāhui e ngā hēpara? 3 E kainga ana te ngako e koutou, e kākahuria ana e koutou te huruhuru, e patua ana e koutou ngā mea mōmona; ko ngā hipi ia, kāhore rātou e whāngaia e koutou. 4 Kīhai i whakakahangia e koutou ngā tūroro, kīhai ngā mea mate i rongoātia e koutou, te mea i whati kīhai i takaia e koutou, kīhai anō i whakahokia mai e koutou te mea i āia atu, kīhai i rapua te mea i ngaro; heoi he taikaha, he nanakia, tā koutou whakahaere tikanga ki a rātou. 5 Nā, marara noa atu rātou i te kore hēpara. Riro ana hei kai mā ngā kīrehe katoa o te pārae, ā, i marara noa atu rātou. 6 I ātiutiu noa atu āku hipi i runga i ngā maunga katoa, i runga i ngā pukepuke tiketike katoa. I marara noa atu āku hipi i runga i te mata katoa o te whenua, kāhore hoki he tangata hei rapu, hei whakataki i a rātou.

7 "Mō reira, e ngā hēpara, whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā; 8 e ora ana ahau, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā, nā, kua waiho nei āku hipi hei taonga pārau, kua waiho anō āku hipi hei kai mā ngā kīrehe katoa o te pārae, i te kore hēpara, kīhai nei hoki āku hēpara i rapu i āku hipi, heoi whāngaia ana ko rātou anō e ngā hēpara, kīhai i whāngai i āku hipi. 9 Mō reira, e ngā hēpara, whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā. 10 Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Hei hoariri tēnei ahau mō ngā hēpara; ā, ka rapu utu ahau mō āku hipi i ō rātou ringa, ka whakamutua anō e ahau tā rātou whāngai hipi. E kore hoki ngā hēpara e whāngai i a rātou anō i muri nei; ā, ka whakaorangia e ahau āku hipi i roto i ō rātou māngai, kei waiho hei kai mā rātou."

Ko Ihowā te Hēpara Pono

11 "Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Nanā, ka rapu ahau, ahau tonu nei, i āku hipi, ka kimihia mārietia. 12 Ka rite ki te kimi a te hēpara i tāna kāhui i te rā e tae ai ia ki roto ki āna hipi kua tohatoha noa atu, ka pēnā anō tāku kimi i āku hipi; ka whakaorangia anō rātou e ahau i ngā wāhi katoa i marara atu ai rātou i te rā tukupū, i te rā pōuri. 13 Ka whakaputaina anō rātou e ahau i roto i ngā iwi, ka whakaminea mai i ngā whenua, ka kawea hoki ki tō rātou oneone; ā, ka whāngaia rātou e ahau ki runga ki ngā maunga o Īharaira, ki te taha o ngā awa, ki ngā wāhi katoa o te whenua e nohoia ana. 14 Ka whāngaia rātou e ahau i te wāhi tarutaru pai, ā, hei runga i ngā maunga tiketike o Īharaira he puninga mō rātou; ka takoto rātou ki reira ki te puninga pai, ka kai anō rātou i runga i ngā maunga o Īharaira i ngā wāhi mōmona te tarutaru. 15 Ko ahau tonu hei whāngai i āku hipi, ko ahau anō hei mea i a rātou kia takoto, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā. 16 Māku e rapu te mea i ngaro, māku anō e whakahoki mai te mea i āia atu, māku e takai te mea i whati, māku anō e whakakaha te mea tūroro. Nā, ko te mea mōmona, ko te mea kaha, ka ngaro i ahau; ka whāngaia rātou e ahau i runga i te whakawā.

17 "Nā, ko koutou, e āku hipi, ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Nanā, ka whakaritea e ahau te whakawā a tētahi hipi ki tētahi hipi, a ngā hipi toa anō rātou ko ngā koati toa. 18 He mea iti ianei ki a koutou tā koutou kai i ngā wāhi tarutaru pai, i takahia ai e koutou te toenga o tā koutou kai ki ō koutou waewae? Tā koutou inu hoki i ngā wai purata, ā, whakapokea ake e koutou te toenga ki ō koutou waewae? 19 Nā, ko āku hipi, ka kai rātou i ngā takahanga a ō koutou waewae, ka inu hoki i tā ō koutou waewae i whakapoke ai.

20 "Mō reira ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā, ki a rātou: Nanā, māku, māku tonu nei e whakarite te whakawā a te hipi mōmona rāua ko te hipi hīroki. 21 Nō te mea kua tute koutou ki ō koutou kaokao, ki ō koutou peke, ā, kua ākina e koutou ngā mea mate ki ō koutou haona, ā, marara ake rātou i a koutou ki waho noa atu. 22 Nā reira ka whakaora ahau i āku hipi; e kore anō rātou e waiho i muri nei hei pāhuatanga; ka whakaritea anō e ahau te whakawā a tētahi hipi ki tētahi hipi. 23 Ā, ka whakaritea e ahau kotahi te hēpara mō rātou, māna rātou e whāngai, arā tāku pononga a Rāwiri; māna rātou e whāngai, ā, ko ia hei hēpara mō rātou. 24 Ko ahau, ko Ihowā, hei Atua mō rātou, ā, ko tāku pononga, ko Rāwiri, hei rangatira i roto i a rātou; nāku, nā Ihowā, te kupu.

25 "Ka whakaritea anō e ahau he kawenata mō te rongo mau ki a rātou, ka whakamutua hoki te noho o ngā kīrehe kikino ki te whenua; ā, ka noho rātou ki te koraha, tē ai he wehi, ka moe anō ki ngā ngahere. 26 Ā, ka meinga rātou e ahau, me ngā wāhi anō i tōku pukepuke a karapoi noa, hei manaakitanga; ā, ka meinga e ahau te ua kia heke iho i te wā i tika ai; ā, ka uaina iho ngā manaaki. 27 Nā, ka hua ngā hua o te rākau o te pārae, ka tukua mai anō ōna mau e te whenua, ka noho hūmārie hoki rātou ki tō rātou whenua. Ka mōhio anō rātou ko Ihowā ahau, ina motu i ahau ngā here o tō rātou ioka, ā, ka riro rātou i ahau i roto i te ringa o ō rātou kaiwhakamahi. 28 Ā, e kore rātou e waiho i muri nei hei pāhuatanga mā ngā iwi, e kore hoki e kainga e te kīrehe o te whenua; engari ka noho hūmārie rātou, tē ai he kaiwhakawehi. 29 Ā, ka ara i ahau he māhuri whai ingoa mā rātou, e kore hoki rātou e riro i te hemokai i runga i te whenua e kore anō e mau ki a rātou te numinumi i ngā tauiwi ā muri ake nei. 30 Nā, ka mōhio rātou ko ahau, ko Ihowā, ko tō rātou Atua, kei a rātou, ā, ko rātou, ko te whare o Īharaira, he iwi nāku, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā. 31 Nā, ko koutou, ko āku hipi, ko ngā hipi e whāngaia ana e ahau, he tāngata koutou, ko ahau hoki tō koutou Atua, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā."