Ye eat the [a]fat, and ye clothe you with the wool: ye kill them that are fed, but ye feed not the sheep.

The [b]weak have ye not strengthened: the sick have ye not healed, neither have ye bound up the broken, nor brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost, but with cruelty, and with rigor have ye ruled them.

And they were scattered without a shepherd: and when they were dispersed, they were [c]devoured of all the beasts of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:3 Ye seek to enrich yourselves by their commodities, and to spoil their riches and substance.
  2. Ezekiel 34:4 He describeth the office and duty of a good pastor, who ought to love and succor his flock, and not to be cruel toward them.
  3. Ezekiel 34:5 For lack of good government and doctrine they perished.

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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