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Ezekiel 34:4Ezek.34.4

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

KJV

Hebrew original

אֶֽת הַ/נַּחְלוֹת֩ לֹ֨א חִזַּקְתֶּ֜ם וְ/אֶת הַ/חוֹלָ֣ה לֹֽא רִפֵּאתֶ֗ם וְ/לַ/נִּשְׁבֶּ֨רֶת֙ לֹ֣א חֲבַשְׁתֶּ֔ם וְ/אֶת הַ/נִּדַּ֨חַת֙ לֹ֣א הֲשֵׁבֹתֶ֔ם וְ/אֶת הָ/אֹבֶ֖דֶת לֹ֣א בִקַּשְׁתֶּ֑ם וּ/בְ/חָזְקָ֛ה רְדִיתֶ֥ם אֹתָ֖/ם וּ/בְ/פָֽרֶךְ

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Vous n'avez pas fortifié celles qui étaient faibles, guéri celle qui était malade, pansé celle qui était blessée; vous n'avez pas ramené celle qui s'égarait, cherché celle qui était perdue; mais vous les avez dominées avec violence et avec dureté.

KJV

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    faithful to lead back those who have gone astray, wherefore it is written against certain persons ( Ezech. 34:4 ): "That which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost." Now schismatics are more easily brought back by such as may hol…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 116 (Migne)

    piuntur negligentes pastores, et dicitur eis: «Errantem non revocastis, «perditum non inquisistis?» (Ezech. XXXIV, 4.) Recesserunt quidem a Domino multi ex discipulis, et [Col. 0174B] arbitrio suo malae atque impiae discessioni permissi sunt, caeterisque duodecim qui remanserant…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 130 (Migne)

    vaticinium, quod in nobis «defractum est, alligetur, et [Col. 0548C] quod abjectum est, reducatur (Ezech. XXXIV, 4) .» Det ergo eidem principi Dominus pro hujus sacrae sollicitudinis voto et cursum praesentis vitae in pace transire, et post diuturna tempora ad se in pace remissi…

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