Ezekiel 34:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The diseased and weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the hurt and crippled you have not bandaged, those gone astray you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought to find, but with force and hardhearted harshness you have ruled them.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁴ You don’t strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bind up the injured, bring back the strays, or seek out the lost; but instead you use force to rule them with injustice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ What was weak, you have not strengthened, and what was sick, you have not healed. What was broken, you have not bound, and what was cast aside, you have not led back again, and what was lost, you have not sought. Instead, you ruled over them with severity and with power.

Ezekiel 34:4 Cross References

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.

Matthew 10:6

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Hebrews 12:12

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees

2 Corinthians 1:24

I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy because you stand firm in faith.

Jeremiah 8:22

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

Matthew 24:49

and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbors work for nothing and does not give them their wages,

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s sentinels are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Leviticus 25:43

You shall not rule over them with harshness but shall fear your God.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 3:7

But the other will cry out on that day, saying, “I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people.”

Ezekiel 19:6

He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured people.

Ezekiel 19:7

And he ravaged their strongholds and laid waste their towns; the land was appalled, and all in it, at the sound of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:9

With hooks they put him in a neck collar and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, so that his voice should be heard no more on the mountains of Israel.