Ezekiel 34:3

Modern English Version

You eat the fat and clothe yourself with the wool; you kill those who are fed without feeding the flock.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other; besides his sin he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, whose fangs are like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among mortals.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:

Isaiah 1:15

When you reach out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have smitten your children; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

Lamentations 4:13

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Ezekiel 19:3

When she brought up one of her whelps, he became a lion and learned to catch his prey; he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:6

He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

Amos 6:4

who lie upon beds of ivory, and lounge on their couches, eating lambs from the flock and calves from the stall;

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Zechariah 11:16

For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are perishing, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor feed those who are standing still. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hoofs in pieces.

Zechariah 11:5

The ones who buy them then slaughter them and have no guilt, and those who sell them say, “Blessed is the Lord because I am rich.” Their own shepherds do not take pity on them.