Ezekiel 34:3

The Scriptures 1998

“You eat the fat and you put on the wool. You slaughter the fatlings – you do not feed the flock.

Cross References

Zechariah 11:16

“For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who does not visit those straying, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he does eat the flesh of the fat and tear off their hooves.

Zechariah 11:5

whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt, and their sellers say, ‘Blessed be יהוה, for I have become rich.’ And their own shepherds do not spare them.

Ezekiel 19:6

‘And he went about among the lions, and became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:3

‘And she brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.

Lamentations 4:13

It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain have I smitten your children – they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Isaiah 1:15

“And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏ

2 Kings 21:16

And also, Menashsheh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Yehuḏ

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in her midst are roaring lions, her judges are evening wolves, they shall leave no bone until morning.

Amos 6:4

who are lying on beds of ivory, and are stretched out on your couches, and are eating lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.