Ezekiel 34:11-16

God knows those who are His and He will find us no matter how far we roam. When we are hurt by the very people that are supposed to be our spiritual leaders He knows and He acts in our behalf. He takes our pain, shows us His truth and He turns what was meant to destroy us into our good.

Compare the Lord’s persistent shepherding and guiding of His people with the faithlessness of Israel’s leaders. See also Ps. 23, where similar ideas pertain to God’s shepherding of the individual rather than corporate Israel. 

 Ezekiel 34:11-16

¹¹ ‘For thus says the Lord God: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. ¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day. ¹³ And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. ¹⁴ I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁵ I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord God. ¹⁶ “I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment.”