Verse Lens · Context pointer
Ezekiel 34:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Ezekiel states or reports “My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill” at Ezekiel 34:6 as a specific part of “Shepherds Feed Themselves and Scatter the Flock.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 34:1–10
Read Ezekiel 34:6 with 34:1–10. By itself, “My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Israel's shepherds consume flock products without strengthening weak, healing sick, binding injured, retrieving strays, or seeking lost sheep; harsh rule scatters them, so God opposes the shepherds.
Why It Needs Context
The verse is a premise, action, image, response, or transition within Ezekiel 34:1–10, not an independent maxim. The prophetic word through Ezekiel states or reports “My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill” at Ezekiel 34:6 as a specific part of “Shepherds Feed Themselves and Scatter the Flock.”
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ezekiel 34:1–10 — Shepherds Feed Themselves and Scatter the FlockSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 34:1–10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 34:1–10
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