Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Ezekiel 34:5
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Ezekiel34:5
5. scattered, because ... no shepherd--that is, none worthy of the name, though there were some called shepherds (1Ki 22:17; Mt 9:36). Compare Mt 26:31, where the sheep were scattered when the true Shepherd was smitten. God calls them "My sheep"; for they were not, as the shepherds treated them, their patrimony whereby to "feed themselves."
meat to all ... beasts--They became a prey to the Syrians, Ammon, Moab, and Assyria.
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