Ezekiel 34:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

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.”

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.

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,

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?

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.

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.

Leviticus 25:43

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

Matthew 10:6

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

Matthew 21:35

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

Matthew 24:49

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

Matthew 9:36

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

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.

Hebrews 12:12

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees