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Ezekiel 34:3-8 English Standard Version (ESV)

3. You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

4. The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

5. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts.

6. My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

7. “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

8. As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,

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