LORDE God: Wo be vnto
the shepherdes off Israel, that fede them selues.
Shulde not the shepherdes fede þe; flockes? note
Ye haue eaten vp the fatte, ye haue clothed
you with the woll: the best fedde haue
ye slayne, but þe; flocke haue ye not norished: note
The weake haue ye not holden vp, the sicke
haue ye not healed: the broken haue ye not
bounde together, the outcastes haue ye not
brought agayne: note þe; lost haue ye not sought,
but churlishly and cruelly haue ye ruled th&ebar;.
Thus are they scatred here and there without
a shepherde: yee all the beastes off the
felde deuoure them, and they go astraye.
My shepe go wandringe vpon all mo&ubar;taynes
and vpon euery hye hill, yee they be
scatred abrode in all feldes, and there is no
man, that careth for them, or seketh after
them.
B Therfore o ye shepherdes heare the worde
off the LORDE, Thus sayeth the LORDE
God: As truly as I lyue, for so moch as my
shepe are robbed, and deuoured off all the
wylde beestes off the felde, hauynge no shepherde:
and seynge that my shepherdes take
no regarde off my shepe, but fede them selues
only, and not my shepe: Therfore heare þe;
worde off the LORDE, o ye shepherdes: Thus
sayeth the LORDE God: Beholde, I myselff
will vpon the shepherdes, and requyre my
shepe from their hondes, and make th&ebar; ceasse
from fedynge of my shepe: yee the shepherdes
shall fede them selues nomore: For I
will delyuer my shepe out off their mouthes
so that they shall not deuoure them after
this.
noteFor thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde,
I will loke to my shepe myselff, and seke
them. Like as a shepherde am&obar;ge the flocke
seketh after the shepe that are scatred abrode,
euen so will I seke after my shepe, and gather
them together out off all places, where
they haue bene scatred in the cloudy and
darcke daye. I will bringe them out from all
people, and gather them together out of all
londes. I will bringe th&ebar; in to their owne londe,
and fede them vpon the mountaynes off
Israel, by the ryuers, and in all the places of
the countre.
C I will fede them in right good
pastures, and vpon the hie mountaynes off
Israel shall there foldes be. There shal they
lye in a good folde, &abar;d in a fat pasture shall
they fede: euen vpon the mountaynes of Israel.
I will fede my shepe myselff, and bringe
them to their rest, sayeth the LORDE God.
noteSoch as be lost, will I seke: soch as go astraye,
wil I brynge agayne: soch as be wo&ubar;ded,
will I bynde vp: soch as be weake, will I make
stronge: soch as be fat and well lykinge,
those will I preserue, and fede them with þe;
thinge that is laufull. And as for you (o my
shepe) sayeth the LORDE God: note I will put a
difference amonge the shepe, amonge the
wethers &abar;d the goates. Was it not ynough
for you, to eat vp the good pasture, but ye
must treade downe the residue of youre pasture
&wt; youre fete also? Was it not ynough
for you to drynke cleare water, but ye must
trouble the residue also with youre fete?
Thus my shepe must be fayne to eate þe;
thinge, that ye haue troden downe with yo&highr;
fete, and to drynke it, that ye with youre fete
haue defyled.
Therfore, thus sayeth the LORDE
God vnto them: Beholde, I will seuer the
fat shepe from the leane: for so moch as
ye haue shot the weake shepe a p&obar; þe; sydes ∧
shulders, and runne vpon them with youre
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hornes, so longe till ye haue vtterly scatred
them abrode. I wil helpe my shepe, so þt; they
shal nomore be spoyled: yee I wil discerne one
shepe from another.
D I wil rayse vp vnto
them one only shepherde: euen my seruaunt
Dauid, he shal fede th&ebar;, note and he shal be their
shepherde. I the LORDE wil be their God,
and my seruaunt Dauid shal be their prince:
Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it.
Morouer, I wil make a couenaunt of peace
with them, and dryue all euell beastes out
of the londe: so that they maye dwell safely
in the wildernesse, and slepe in the woddes.
Good fortune ∧ prosperite wil I geue them,
and vnto all that be rounde aboute my hill.
noteA prosperous shower and rayne wil I sende
them in due season, that the trees in the wodde
maye bringe forth their frutes, ∧ þe; grounde
hir increase. They shalbe safe in their londe,
and shal knowe, that I am the LORDE,
which haue brok&ebar; their yocke, and delyuered
them out of the hondes of those, that helde
them in subieccion.
They shal nomore be spoyled of the Heithen,
ner deuoured with the beastes of the l&obar;de:
but safely shal they dwell, ∧ no man shall
fraye them. I wil set vp an excell&ebar;t pl&abar;te for
them, so þt; they shal suffre no more hunger in
the londe, nether beare the reprofe of þe; Heithen
eny more. Thus shal they vnderstonde,
that I the LORDE their God am &wt; them, ∧
þt; they (euen the house of Israel) are my people,
saieth the LORDE God. Ye men are my
flocke, ye are the shepe of my pasture: and I
am youre God, saieth the LORDE God. note
Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
