Ezekiel 34:21
What does Ezekiel 34:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 34:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Because with side and with shoulder ye thrust away, And with your horns push all the diseased, Till ye have scattered them to the out-place,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Because you thrusted with sides and shoulders, and struck all the weak cattle with your horns, till they were scattered abroad:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Zechariah 11:16
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
- Deuteronomy 33:17
The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, eventhe ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
- Luke 13:14
And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.
- Ezekiel 34:3
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.
- Daniel 8:3
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
- Zechariah 11:5
whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
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