“For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.
God's heart is against the shepherds, and His face too. They had His commission to feed the flock, yet they took no care to shield them from idolaters or captors, as if no shepherd existed at all. Those who merely wear the name and authority of a shepherd, without faithfulness to the trust, will find that God does not stand with them but against them.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 34:7-16
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered,.... That is, when they have been scattered, and are got together again; then he goes among them, to see if there are any missing, and in wheat condition they are, and what they want: so will I seek out my sheep, and deliver them out of...
I . . . will . . . search--doing that which the so-called shepherds had failed to do, I being the rightful owner of the flock.