HOLY BIBLE: Ezekiel 34 (original) (raw)

1 καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος κυρίου πρός με λέγων 2 υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου προφήτευσον ἐπὶ τοὺς ποιμένας τοῦ Ισραηλ προφήτευσον καὶ εἰπὸν τοῖς ποιμέσι τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος ὦ ποιμένες Ισραηλ μὴ βόσκουσιν ποιμένες ἑαυτούς οὐ τὰ πρόβατα βόσκουσιν οἱ ποιμένες 3 ἰδοὺ τὸ γάλα κατέσθετε καὶ τὰ ἔρια περιβάλλεσθε καὶ τὸ παχὺ σφάζετε καὶ τὰ πρόβατά μου οὐ βόσκετε 4 τὸ ἠσθενηκὸς οὐκ ἐνισχύσατε καὶ τὸ κακῶς ἔχον οὐκ ἐσωματοποιήσατε καὶ τὸ συντετριμμένον οὐ κατεδήσατε καὶ τὸ πλανώμενον οὐκ ἐπεστρέψατε καὶ τὸ ἀπολωλὸς οὐκ ἐζητήσατε καὶ τὸ ἰσχυρὸν κατειργάσασθε μόχθῳ 5 καὶ διεσπάρη τὰ πρόβατά μου διὰ τὸ μὴ εἶναι ποιμένας καὶ ἐγενήθη εἰς κατάβρωμα πᾶσι τοῖς θηρίοις τοῦ ἀγροῦ 6 καὶ διεσπάρη μου τὰ πρόβατα ἐν παντὶ ὄρει καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ ἐπὶ προσώπου πάσης τῆς γῆς διεσπάρη καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐκζητῶν οὐδὲ ὁ ἀποστρέφων 7 διὰ τοῦτο ποιμένες ἀκούσατε λόγον κυρίου 8 ζῶ ἐγώ λέγει κύριος κύριος εἰ μὴν ἀντὶ τοῦ γενέσθαι τὰ πρόβατά μου εἰς προνομὴν καὶ γενέσθαι τὰ πρόβατά μου εἰς κατάβρωμα πᾶσι τοῖς θηρίοις τοῦ πεδίου παρὰ τὸ μὴ εἶναι ποιμένας καὶ οὐκ ἐξεζήτησαν οἱ ποιμένες τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ ἐβόσκησαν οἱ ποιμένες ἑαυτούς τὰ δὲ πρόβατά μου οὐκ ἐβόσκησαν 9 ἀντὶ τούτου ποιμένες 10 τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ τοὺς ποιμένας καὶ ἐκζητήσω τὰ πρόβατά μου ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀποστρέψω αὐτοὺς τοῦ μὴ ποιμαίνειν τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ οὐ βοσκήσουσιν ἔτι οἱ ποιμένες αὐτά καὶ ἐξελοῦμαι τὰ πρόβατά μου ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἔσονται αὐτοῖς ἔτι εἰς κατάβρωμα

1 Word came to me from the Lord: 2 Now, son of man, prophesy doom to the rulers of Israel, the shepherds of my flock. This be thy message from the Lord God: Out upon Israel’s shepherds, that had a flock to feed, and fed none but themselves; 3 the milk drank, the wool wore, the fat lambs slaughtered, but pastured these sheep of mine never at all! 4 The wasted frame went unnourished, the sick unhealed; nor bound they the broken limb, nor brought strayed sheep home, nor lost sheep found; force and constraint were all the governance they knew. 5 So my sheep fell a-wandering, that shepherd had none; every wild beast fell a-preying on them, and they scattered far and wide. 6 All over the mountains they strayed, all over the high hills were scattered, this flock of mine, and no search was made for them, no search at all. 7 This doom, then, the Lord pronounces on yonder shepherds: 8 As I am a living God, I will have a reckoning for sheep of mine carried off, sheep of mine the wild beasts have preyed on, while they went all untended, with shepherds that would not go in search of them, shepherds that no flock would feed, but themselves only. 9 A word, shepherds, for your hearing, 10 a message from the Lord God: Out upon yonder shepherds! I will hold them answerable for the flock entrusted to them, and they shall have charge of it no more, feed themselves out of its revenues no more. From their greedy power I will rescue it; no longer shall it be their prey.

1 Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens: 2 Fili hominis, propheta de pastoribus Israël: propheta, et dices pastoribus:

Hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Væ pastoribus Israël, qui pascebant semetipsos!
nonne greges a pastoribus pascuntur?

3
Lac comedebatis,
et lanis operiebamini,
et quod crassum erat occidebatis:
gregem autem meum non pascebatis. 4
Quod infirmum fuit non consolidastis,
et quod ægrotum non sanastis:
quod confractum est non alligastis,
et quod abjectum est non reduxistis,
et quod perierat non quæsistis:
sed cum austeritate imperabatis eis, et cum potentia. 5
Et dispersæ sunt oves meæ, eo quod non esset pastor:
et factæ sunt in devorationem omnium bestiarum agri,
et dispersæ sunt. 6
Erraverunt greges mei in cunctis montibus,
et in universo colle excelso:
et super omnem faciem terræ dispersi sunt greges mei,
et non erat qui requireret:
non erat, inquam, qui requireret. 7
Propterea, pastores, audite verbum Domini. 8
Vivo ego, dicit Dominus Deus,
quia pro eo quod facti sunt greges mei in rapinam,
et oves meæ in devorationem omnium bestiarum agri,
eo quod non esset pastor:
neque enim quæsierunt pastores mei gregem meum,
sed pascebant pastores semetipsos,
et greges meos non pascebant: 9
propterea, pastores, audite verbum Domini. 10
Hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Ecce ego ipse super pastores:
requiram gregem meum de manu eorum,
et cessare faciam eos,
ut ultra non pascant gregem,
nec pascant amplius pastores semetipsos:
et liberabo gregem meum de ore eorum,
et non erit ultra eis in escam.

11 διότι τάδε λέγει κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐκζητήσω τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ ἐπισκέψομαι αὐτά 12 ὥσπερ ζητεῖ ὁ ποιμὴν τὸ ποίμνιον αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὅταν ᾖ γνόφος καὶ νεφέλη ἐν μέσῳ προβάτων διακεχωρισμένων οὕτως ἐκζητήσω τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ ἀπελάσω αὐτὰ ἀπὸ παντὸς τόπου οὗ διεσπάρησαν ἐκεῖ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ νεφέλης καὶ γνόφου 13 καὶ ἐξάξω αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ συνάξω αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν χωρῶν καὶ εἰσάξω αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν καὶ βοσκήσω αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη Ισραηλ καὶ ἐν ταῖς φάραγξιν καὶ ἐν πάσῃ κατοικίᾳ τῆς γῆς 14 ἐν νομῇ ἀγαθῇ βοσκήσω αὐτούς καὶ ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ ὑψηλῷ Ισραηλ ἔσονται αἱ μάνδραι αὐτῶν ἐκεῖ κοιμηθήσονται καὶ ἐκεῖ ἀναπαύσονται ἐν τρυφῇ ἀγαθῇ καὶ ἐν νομῇ πίονι βοσκηθήσονται ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων Ισραηλ 15 ἐγὼ βοσκήσω τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ ἐγὼ ἀναπαύσω αὐτά καὶ γνώσονται ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι κύριος τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος 16 τὸ ἀπολωλὸς ζητήσω καὶ τὸ πλανώμενον ἐπιστρέψω καὶ τὸ συντετριμμένον καταδήσω καὶ τὸ ἐκλεῖπον ἐνισχύσω καὶ τὸ ἰσχυρὸν φυλάξω καὶ βοσκήσω αὐτὰ μετὰ κρίματος

11 This is what the Lord God says: I mean to go looking for this flock of mine, search it out for myself. 12 As a shepherd, when he finds his flock scattered all about him, goes looking for his sheep, so will I go looking for these sheep of mine, rescue them from all the nooks into which they have strayed when the dark mist fell upon them. 13 Rescued from every kingdom, recovered from every land, I will bring them back to their own country; they shall have pasture on the hill-sides of Israel, by its watercourses, in the resting-places of their home. 14 Yes, I will lead them out into fair pastures, the high mountains of Israel shall be their feeding-ground, the mountains of Israel, with soft grass for them to rest on, rich feed for them to graze. 15 Food and rest, says the Lord God, both these I will give to my flock. 16 The lost sheep I will find, the strayed sheep I will bring home again; bind up the broken limb, nourish the wasted frame, keep the well-fed and the sturdy free from harm;[1] they shall have a true shepherd at last.

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Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Ecce ego ipse requiram oves meas,
et visitabo eas.

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Sicut visitat pastor gregem suum,
in die quando fuerit in medio ovium suarum dissipatarum,
sic visitabo oves meas,
et liberabo eas de omnibus locis
in quibus dispersæ fuerant in die nubis et caliginis. 13
Et educam eas de populis,
et congregabo eas de terris,
et inducam eas in terram suam,
et pascam eas in montibus Israël,
in rivis, et in cunctis sedibus terræ. 14
In pascuis uberrimis pascam eas,
et in montibus excelsis Israël erunt pascua earum:
ibi requiescent in herbis virentibus,
et in pascuis pinguibus pascentur super montes Israël. 15
Ego pascam oves meas, et ego eas accubare faciam,
dicit Dominus Deus. 16
Quod perierat requiram,
et quod abjectum erat reducam,
et quod confractum fuerat alligabo,
et quod infirmum fuerat consolidabo,
et quod pingue et forte custodiam:
et pascam illas in judicio.

17 καὶ ὑμεῖς πρόβατα τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ διακρινῶ ἀνὰ μέσον προβάτου καὶ προβάτου κριῶν καὶ τράγων 18 καὶ οὐχ ἱκανὸν ὑμῖν ὅτι τὴν καλὴν νομὴν ἐνέμεσθε καὶ τὰ κατάλοιπα τῆς νομῆς ὑμῶν κατεπατεῖτε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν καὶ τὸ καθεστηκὸς ὕδωρ ἐπίνετε καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν ἐταράσσετε 19 καὶ τὰ πρόβατά μου τὰ πατήματα τῶν ποδῶν ὑμῶν ἐνέμοντο καὶ τὸ τεταραγμένον ὕδωρ ὑπὸ τῶν ποδῶν ὑμῶν ἔπινον 20 διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ διακρινῶ ἀνὰ μέσον προβάτου ἰσχυροῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον προβάτου ἀσθενοῦς 21 ἐπὶ ταῖς πλευραῖς καὶ τοῖς ὤμοις ὑμῶν διωθεῖσθε καὶ τοῖς κέρασιν ὑμῶν ἐκερατίζετε καὶ πᾶν τὸ ἐκλεῖπον ἐξεθλίβετε 22 καὶ σώσω τὰ πρόβατά μου καὶ οὐ μὴ ὦσιν ἔτι εἰς προνομήν καὶ κρινῶ ἀνὰ μέσον κριοῦ πρὸς κριόν 23 καὶ ἀναστήσω ἐ{P'} αὐτοὺς ποιμένα ἕνα καὶ ποιμανεῖ αὐτούς τὸν δοῦλόν μου Δαυιδ καὶ ἔσται αὐτῶν ποιμήν 24 καὶ ἐγὼ κύριος ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς θεόν καὶ Δαυιδ ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν ἄρχων ἐγὼ κύριος ἐλάλησα 25 καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ Δαυιδ διαθήκην εἰρήνης καὶ ἀφανιῶ θηρία πονηρὰ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ κατοικήσουσιν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ καὶ ὑπνώσουσιν ἐν τοῖς δρυμοῖς 26 καὶ δώσω αὐτοὺς περικύκλῳ τοῦ ὄρους μου καὶ δώσω τὸν ὑετὸν ὑμῖν ὑετὸν εὐλογίας 27 καὶ τὰ ξύλα τὰ ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ δώσει τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ γῆ δώσει τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῆς καὶ κατοικήσουσιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς αὐτῶν ἐν ἐλπίδι εἰρήνης καὶ γνώσονται ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι κύριος ἐν τῷ συντρῖψαί με τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐξελοῦμαι αὐτοὺς ἐκ χειρὸς τῶν καταδουλωσαμένων αὐτούς 28 καὶ οὐκ ἔσονται ἔτι ἐν προνομῇ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν καὶ τὰ θηρία τῆς γῆς οὐκέτι μὴ φάγωσιν αὐτούς καὶ κατοικήσουσιν ἐν ἐλπίδι καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἐκφοβῶν αὐτούς 29 καὶ ἀναστήσω αὐτοῖς φυτὸν εἰρήνης καὶ οὐκέτι ἔσονται ἀπολλύμενοι λιμῷ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐνέγκωσιν ἔτι ὀνειδισμὸν ἐθνῶν 30 καὶ γνώσονται ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι κύριος ὁ θεὸς αὐτῶν καὶ αὐτοὶ λαός μου οἶκος Ισραηλ λέγει κύριος 31 πρόβατά μου καὶ πρόβατα ποιμνίου μού ἐστε καὶ ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν λέγει κύριος κύριος

17 And what of you, my flock? I mean to do justice, the Lord God says, among the beasts themselves, give redress against the rams and the buck-goats. 18 What, was it not enough to have stripped the pasture-lands with your grazing, drunk all that was purest out of the stream, but you must trample and foul all that was left? 19 None but trampled fields must my sheep graze, none but fouled waters drink? 20 This is what the Lord God says: I mean to see justice done between fat beast and lean. 21 Thrust back with side and shoulder, gored with the horn, all the weaker of them have been driven away; 22 but now I mean to protect this flock of mine against your greed, give beast redress against its fellow.

… 23 They shall have a single shepherd to tend all of them now;[2] who should tend them but my servant David? He shall be their shepherd, 24 and I, the Lord, will be their God, now that he rules them on earth; such is my divine promise to them. 25 Such a covenant I will make as shall grant them security; beasts of prey there shall be none, safe resting, now, in the desert, safe sleeping in the woods; 26 on my hill-sides they shall dwell, a blessed people in a blessed home, rain in its season fall on them, and blessings all the while. 27 Wild trees their fruit, the earth its crops shall afford; undisturbed they shall dwell on their own lands, acknowledging my power at last, my power that severed strap of yoke, rescued them from the tyrant’s hand. 28 Forgotten, the enemies that despoiled, the wild beasts that preyed on them; they will live sheltered from all alarms. 29 Once more their renown shall burgeon;[3] never again the land starve with drought, never the alien’s taunts be heard. 30 None shall doubt that I, the Lord their God, am at their side, and they are my own people, the race of Israel, the Lord God says. 31 Flock of mine, the Lord God says, flock of my pasturing, you are but men,[4] yet I, the Lord, am your God.

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Vos autem, greges mei, hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
Ecce ego judico inter pecus et pecus,
arietum et hircorum. 18
Nonne satis vobis erat pascua bona depasci?
insuper et reliquias pascuarum vestrarum conculcastis pedibus vestris:
et cum purissimam aquam biberetis,
reliquam pedibus vestris turbabatis: 19
et oves meæ his quæ conculcata pedibus vestris fuerant, pascebantur:
et quæ pedes vestri turbaverant, hæc bibebant. 20
Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus ad vos:
Ecce ego ipse judico inter pecus pingue et macilentum: 21
pro eo quod lateribus et humeris impingebatis,
et cornibus vestris ventilabatis omnia infirma pecora,
donec dispergerentur foras, 22
salvabo gregem meum,
et non erit ultra in rapinam,
et judicabo inter pecus et pecus. 23

Et suscitabo super eas pastorem unum qui pascat eas,
servum meum David:
ipse pascet eas,
et ipse erit eis in pastorem.

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Ego autem Dominus ero eis in Deum,
et servus meus David princeps in medio eorum:
ego Dominus locutus sum. 25
Et faciam cum eis pactum pacis,
et cessare faciam bestias pessimas de terra:
et qui habitant in deserto,
securi dormient in saltibus. 26
Et ponam eos in circuitu collis mei benedictionem,
et deducam imbrem in tempore suo:
pluviæ benedictionis erunt. 27
Et dabit lignum agri fructum suum,
et terra dabit germen suum,
et erunt in terra sua absque timore:
et scient quia ego Dominus,
cum contrivero catenas jugi eorum,
et eruero eos de manu imperantium sibi. 28
Et non erunt ultra in rapinam in gentibus,
neque bestiæ terræ devorabunt eos:
sed habitabunt confidenter absque ullo terrore. 29
Et suscitabo eis germen nominatum,
et non erunt ultra imminuti fame in terra,
neque portabunt ultra opprobrium gentium. 30
Et scient quia ego Dominus Deus eorum cum eis,
et ipsi populus meus domus Israël,
ait Dominus Deus. 31
Vos autem, greges mei, greges pascuæ meæ,
homines estis:
et ego Dominus Deus vester,
dicit Dominus Deus.

[1] ‘Keep … free from harm’; so the Septuagint Greek. The Hebrew text has ‘destroy’, probably through the miscopying of a single letter.

[2] The rest of the chapter, from this verse onwards, has a different setting and a different emphasis from what goes before; there may have been some omission or misplacement.

[3] Literally, in the Hebrew text, ‘I will raise up a planting for them for renown’. This is usually interpreted as implying a successful development of afforestation; the rendering given above perhaps makes the sentence less frigid.

[4] Or possibly, ‘you are men’ (as opposed to dumb beasts). But in either case the contrast seems uncalled for, and there is some reason to doubt whether the text has been correctly preserved; the Septuagint Greek has simply, ‘you are the sheep of my flock and I am your God’.

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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
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