Woe to the shepherds who fed themselves!
Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?
- You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.
- The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed the sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.
- So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.
- My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: “As I live,” says the Lord God**;**
- because My flock was plundered, and because My flock became food for every beast of the field, for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock—
…shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God:
- Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand;
- I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep,
- and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more;
- for I will deliver My flock from their mouths,
- that they may no longer be food for them.
For thus says the Lord God: Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God.
- 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 with judgment.
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