Polyglot Bible: Ezekiel: Ezekiel 34

This is Ezekiel 34 presented in three parallel textual traditions — the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Greek Septuagint, and the Hebrew Masoretic Text — a format used for comparative biblical scholarship and translation study. The chapter is a prophetic oracle in which God, speaking through Ezekiel, indicts Israel's leadership class ("shepherds") for exploiting rather than caring for the people ("the flock"): consuming the wealth, ruling by force and cruelty, and failing to heal, strengthen, or seek out the vulnerable. Because the shepherds have abandoned their charge, God announces he will remove them and personally assume the role of shepherd, gathering the scattered sheep from among the nations, restoring them to the land, and feeding them on the mountains of Israel. The oracle closes with an eschatological promise that God will appoint one shepherd — "my servant David" — as a messianic prince, establish a covenant of peace, eliminate predators from the land, and ensure agricultural abundance and security. The passage is distinctive for its sharp structural symmetry between human failure and divine restoration, and for the "David" figure, which early Jewish and Christian interpreters read as a future messianic king rather than the historical David. The tri-column format makes the text useful for examining translation choices and textual variants across the Hebrew, Greek, and English traditions, though it is a presentation of a single canonical chapter rather than an original argument.

Polyglot Bible: Ezekiel: Ezekiel 34

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