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The fat you eat, and you clothe yourself with the wool; the well-nourished animals you slaughter, but you do not feed the flock. The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and with respect to[a] the hurt[b] you have not bound them up, and you have not brought back the scattered, and you have not sought the lost, but rather you ruled over them with force[c] and with ruthlessness. And they were scattered without[d] a shepherd, and they were[e] as food for all the animals[f] of the field when they were scattered.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:4 Literally “for”
  2. Ezekiel 34:4 Or “wounded”
  3. Ezekiel 34:4 Or “violence”
  4. Ezekiel 34:5 Literally “from not”
  5. Ezekiel 34:5 Or “became”
  6. Ezekiel 34:5 Hebrew “animal”

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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