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You drink the milk, wear clothes made from the wool, and kill and eat the finest sheep. But you never tend the sheep. You have not taken care of the weak ones, healed the ones that are sick, bandaged the ones that are hurt, brought back the ones that wandered off, or looked for the ones that were lost. Instead, you treated them cruelly. (A)Because the sheep had no shepherd, they were scattered, and wild animals killed and ate them.

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You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.(A) You have not strengthened the weak or healed(B) the sick or bound up(C) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(D) So they were scattered because there was no shepherd,(E) and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.(F)

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