Quotes About Leadership

Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a rulerís scepter.í This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”

And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.í

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëRemove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains.

“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ëSuppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWoe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?

You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.

Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!í

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.í

This is what the Lord GOD says to you, My flock: ëI will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the goats.

Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ëBehold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.