19 Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?’ 20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,
Ezekiel 34:19–21
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