(A)You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you (B)slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. (C)The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor (D)sought what was lost; but with (E)force and [a]cruelty you have ruled them. (F)So they were (G)scattered because there was no shepherd; (H)and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.

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  1. Ezekiel 34:4 harshness or rigor

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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