⁸ [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because my sheep have been a prey, and my sheep have been meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds searched not for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock,

¹ Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.