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You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fat ones. But you do not take care of the sheep. You do not strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring back the stray or seek the lost. Instead, you have ruled over them with force and cruelty. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd. They became food for all the beasts of the field as they were scattered.

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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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