3. You drink the milk, you wear the wool, and you slaughter the fat animals, but you don’t tend the flock.
4. You don’t strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bind up the injured, bring back the strays, or seek out the lost; but instead you use force to rule them with injustice.
5. Without a shepherd, my flock was scattered; and when it was scattered, it became food for all the wild animals.
6. My flock strayed on all the mountains and on every high hill throughout all the earth. My flock was scattered, and there was no one to look for them or find them.
7. So now shepherds, hear the Lord’s word!
8. This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, without a shepherd, my flock became prey. My flock became food for all the wild animals. My shepherds didn’t seek out my flock. They tended themselves, but they didn’t tend my flock.
9. So, shepherds, hear the Lord’s word!