Day of Yâ-hwéh: Judgment of the Pastors, Rescue for His people

9. Therefore, O pastors, hear the Word of Yâ-hwéh:” 10. Thus says my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh: “Look! I am against the pastors and I will require My flock from their hand, and I shall put an end to their pastoring the flock so the pastors may not pasture themselves anymore, and I shall rescue My sheep from their mouth and they shall not be food for them, 11. because,” thus says my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, “here I am, I am Who shall inquire for My flock and I shall look for them: 12. Like the concern of a Pastor for His flock on a day He is in the midst of His scattered137 flock [MattithYâ´huw 12: 30, Luwqá’ 11: 23] thus shall I look for My flock and I shall rescue them from all of the places that they were dispersed to on the Day of the nebula [30: 3] and the darkness, 13. And I shall bring them out from the peoples and I shall gather them together from the lands and I shall bring them to their Land and I shall pasture them on the mountains of Yisrâ’Ë´l by the ravines and in all of the settlements of the Land, 14. In a good pasture shall I pasture them and on the mountains of the height of Yisrâ’Ë´l shall be their abode, there, they shall lie down in the good meadow, and they shall feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Yisrâ’Ë´l. 15. I am Who shall pasture My sheep and I am Who shall cause them to lie down,” declares my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, 16. “I shall seek to find the strayed one and shall bring back the banished one and I shall bandage up the broken one and I will strengthen the tired one, but I shall guard138 the fat one and the strong one and feed them judiciously, 17. and you are My flock,” thus says my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh. “Look! I am discriminating between one herd to another herd – for the rams and against the goats. 18. Is it too little for ye that ye are grazing on the good pasture so ye are trampling down the rest of your pastures with your feet? And that ye are drinking the clarified water so you are fouling the rest by stamping with your feet? 19. So My flock is grazing on what your feet have trampled and what they are drinking is what your feet have fouled by stamping! 20. Therefore,” thus says my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh, to them, “Here am I, I, so I shall discriminate between the herd of the fat and between the herd of the lean, [39: 18] 21. since you shove with your side and with your shoulder, and you butt all of the weak ones with your horns until you have caused them to scatter to the outside, 22. But I shall save My flock and they shall not be for plunder anymore, so I shall discriminate between a herd for another herd. 23. And I shall raise up over them one pastor and he shall pasture them – My servant Dâwíth he is who will pastor them and he is who will be for them for a pastor; 24. And I am Yâ-hwéh, I shall be for them for a mighty Ones and My servant Dâwíth is an exalted one139 among them; I am Yâ-hwéh who has spoken, [Songs 18: 43] 25. And I shall pact for them [Dâ´niyyË´’l 9: 26] a covenant of shâlówm (peace, reconciliation, completeness) and I shall put an end to wicked animals from the Land so they may settle in the wilderness in safety and they may sleep in the forests; 26. And I shall settle them surrounding My mountain, and I shall give you the rain, the rainfall of blessing; 27. And the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the land, it shall yield her produce and they shall be on their Land in safety and they shall acknowledge that I am Yâ-hwéh when I am to break the bars of their yoke so I shall rescue them from the hand of their enslavers; 28. And they shall not be plunder anymore for the heathen masses, and the animal of the land – it shall not devour them and they shall dwell in safety and there shall be no one causing them to tremble. 29. And I shall raise up for them a plantation for the name [Chanówkh 92: 2, 8, 12] so they shall not be consumed by famine anymore in the Land, nor they shall bear anymore the reproach of the heathen masses, 30. So they shall recognize that I, Yâ-hwéh their mighty Ones, am with them and the House of Yisrâ’Ë´l are My people,” declares my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh; 31. “and you are My flock, the flock of My pasture: human [’âthâ´m] are ye, I am your mighty Ones,” declares my Sovereign Yâ-hwéh.