Ezekiel 34:20-31

Therefore, Lord YAHWEH says this: I am the one who judges between the strong sheep and the weak. Because you shove with your side and your shoulder and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them, therefore, I will come and save my sheep and rescue them from being victimized. I will judge between one sheep and another. “ ‘I will raise up one shepherd over them, like my servant David, and put him in charge of my flock to feed them. He will care for them and be their shepherd. I, YAHWEH, will be their God, and my servant, like David, will be their prince taken from among them. I, YAHWEH, have spoken. I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of its wild beasts. Then they will be able to live securely in the wilderness and sleep soundly in the forest. And I will make them and the places all around my sacred hill a blessing. And I will send showers of blessing —showers will come down in their season. And the tree of the field will yield its luscious fruit, the earth will yield its harvest, and they will live safely in their own land. When I set them free from slavery and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them, then they will acknowledge that I am YAHWEH. Foreign powers will no longer plunder them; the wild beasts of the land will no longer feast on them. They will live safe and secure, with no one to frighten them. I will establish for them a planting of renown so that they will no longer suffer from famine. And they will no longer have to endure the insults of other nations. So they will know that I, YAHWEH, am with them as their God. And they, the people of Israel, will know that they are my people—declares the Lord YAHWEH. And you, my people, are my sheep, the flock of my pasture are people, and I am your God. I, Lord YAHWEH, have spoken.’ ”