You (A)eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you (B)slaughter the fat sheep without [a]feeding the flock. Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the [b]diseased you have not healed, (C)the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you (D)sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them. They were (E)scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became (F)food for every beast of the field and were scattered.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:3 Lit pasturing
  2. Ezekiel 34:4 Lit sick

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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