ECB(i)
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THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING TENDERS
And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 2 Son of humanity, prophesy against the tenders of Yisra El - prophesy, and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh to the tenders: Ho to the tenders of Yisra El who tend themselves! Tend the tenders not the flocks? 3 You eat the fat and you enrobe with the wool; you sacrifice the fattened: you tend not the flock. 4 you neither strengthen the worn nor heal the sick; nor bind the broken nor restore the expelled; nor seek you the lost: and with severity and with tyranny you subjugate them. 5 And because there is no tender, they scatter: and they become food to all the live beings of the field; yes, they scatter. 6 My flock errs inadvertently through all the mountains and on every high hill: yes, my flock scatters on all the face of the earth; and no one searches or seeks. 7 So, you tenders, hear the word of Yah Veh: 8 I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh surely because my flock are a plunder yes, my flock becomes food to every live being of the field because there is no tender; my tenders search not for my flock: and the tenders tend themselves and tend not my flock. 9 So, O you tenders, hear the word of Yah Veh; 10 Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I am against the tenders; and I require my flock at their hand, and shabbathize them from tending the flock; and the tenders tend themselves no more; and I rescue my flock from their mouth, so that they not become food for them. 11
THE TENDER OF YISRA EL
For thus says Adonay Yah Veh; Behold, I - I both search my flock and search them out 12 as a tender searches his drove in the day he is among his flock who scatter; thus I search my flock and rescue them from all places they scatter in the day of cloud and dripping darkness: 13 and I bring them from the people and gather them from the lands; and bring them to their own soil and tend them on the mountains of Yisra El - by the reservoirs and in all the sites of the land: 14 I tend them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Yisra El is their habitation of rest: there they crouch in a good habitation of rest and in a fat pasture they graze on the mountains of Yisra El. 15 I tend my flock and I crouch them - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 16 I seek the lost and restore the expelled and bind up the broken and strengthen the sick: and I desolate the fat and the strong; I tend them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I judge between lambs and lambs; between the rams and the he goats. 18 Is it belittling to you to tend the good pasture? To trample the remnant of your pastures with your feet? To drink of the pond waters? To foul what remains with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they tend what you trample with your feet; and they drink what you trample with your feet. 20 So thus says Adonay Yah Veh to them; Behold, I - I judge between the fat lambs and between the emaciated lambs: 21 because you shove with side and with shoulder and butt all the worn with your horns until you scatter them to the outways. 22 So I save my flock and they are no more a plunder; and I judge between lambs and lambs: 23 and I raise one tender over them - my servant David; and he tends them; he tends them and he becomes their tender. 24 And I Yah Veh become their Elohim, and my servant David a hierarch among them; I Yah Veh have worded. 25
YAH VEH CUTS A COVENANT OF SHALOM
And I cut a covenant of shalom with them and shabbathize the evil live beings from the land: and they settle confidently in the wilderness and sleep in the forests: 26 and I give all them all around my hill a blessing; and I descend the downpour in its time - downpours of blessing: 27 and the tree of the field gives her fruit and the earth gives her produce and they confide in their soil; and know I - Yah Veh when I break the yoke poles of their yoke, and rescue them from the hand of them who serve themselves of them. 28 And they are a plunder to the goyim no more, and the live being of the land devours them not; and they settle confidently and no one terrifies them. 29 And I raise for them a plant of name, and they gather no more with famine in the land and bear the shame of the goyim no more. 30 Thus they know that I - Yah Veh their Elohim, am with them, and they, the house of Yisra El, are my people - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 31 And you, my flock - the flock of my pasture, are human; and I am your Elohim - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh.
THE WORD OF YAH VEH CONCERNING TENDERS
And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 2 Son of humanity, prophesy against the tenders of Yisra El - prophesy, and say to them, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh to the tenders: Ho to the tenders of Yisra El who tend themselves! Tend the tenders not the flocks? 3 You eat the fat and you enrobe with the wool; you sacrifice the fattened: you tend not the flock. 4 you neither strengthen the worn nor heal the sick; nor bind the broken nor restore the expelled; nor seek you the lost: and with severity and with tyranny you subjugate them. 5 And because there is no tender, they scatter: and they become food to all the live beings of the field; yes, they scatter. 6 My flock errs inadvertently through all the mountains and on every high hill: yes, my flock scatters on all the face of the earth; and no one searches or seeks. 7 So, you tenders, hear the word of Yah Veh: 8 I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh surely because my flock are a plunder yes, my flock becomes food to every live being of the field because there is no tender; my tenders search not for my flock: and the tenders tend themselves and tend not my flock. 9 So, O you tenders, hear the word of Yah Veh; 10 Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I am against the tenders; and I require my flock at their hand, and shabbathize them from tending the flock; and the tenders tend themselves no more; and I rescue my flock from their mouth, so that they not become food for them. 11
THE TENDER OF YISRA EL
For thus says Adonay Yah Veh; Behold, I - I both search my flock and search them out 12 as a tender searches his drove in the day he is among his flock who scatter; thus I search my flock and rescue them from all places they scatter in the day of cloud and dripping darkness: 13 and I bring them from the people and gather them from the lands; and bring them to their own soil and tend them on the mountains of Yisra El - by the reservoirs and in all the sites of the land: 14 I tend them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Yisra El is their habitation of rest: there they crouch in a good habitation of rest and in a fat pasture they graze on the mountains of Yisra El. 15 I tend my flock and I crouch them - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 16 I seek the lost and restore the expelled and bind up the broken and strengthen the sick: and I desolate the fat and the strong; I tend them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says Adonay Yah Veh: Behold, I judge between lambs and lambs; between the rams and the he goats. 18 Is it belittling to you to tend the good pasture? To trample the remnant of your pastures with your feet? To drink of the pond waters? To foul what remains with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they tend what you trample with your feet; and they drink what you trample with your feet. 20 So thus says Adonay Yah Veh to them; Behold, I - I judge between the fat lambs and between the emaciated lambs: 21 because you shove with side and with shoulder and butt all the worn with your horns until you scatter them to the outways. 22 So I save my flock and they are no more a plunder; and I judge between lambs and lambs: 23 and I raise one tender over them - my servant David; and he tends them; he tends them and he becomes their tender. 24 And I Yah Veh become their Elohim, and my servant David a hierarch among them; I Yah Veh have worded. 25
YAH VEH CUTS A COVENANT OF SHALOM
And I cut a covenant of shalom with them and shabbathize the evil live beings from the land: and they settle confidently in the wilderness and sleep in the forests: 26 and I give all them all around my hill a blessing; and I descend the downpour in its time - downpours of blessing: 27 and the tree of the field gives her fruit and the earth gives her produce and they confide in their soil; and know I - Yah Veh when I break the yoke poles of their yoke, and rescue them from the hand of them who serve themselves of them. 28 And they are a plunder to the goyim no more, and the live being of the land devours them not; and they settle confidently and no one terrifies them. 29 And I raise for them a plant of name, and they gather no more with famine in the land and bear the shame of the goyim no more. 30 Thus they know that I - Yah Veh their Elohim, am with them, and they, the house of Yisra El, are my people - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh. 31 And you, my flock - the flock of my pasture, are human; and I am your Elohim - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh.