3. You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.
4. You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
5. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd; they became food for all the wild animals when they were scattered.
6. My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the whole face of the earth, and there was no one searching or seeking for them.
7. “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
8. As I live” — the declaration of the Lord God — “because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,
9. therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord!