Verse 5 – This will illustrate the way my people have been bought and slain by wicked leaders, who go unpunished. Thank God, now i am rich! say those who have betrayed them- their own shepards have sold them without mercy.
Verse 6 – And I wont spare them either, says the Lord, “for I will let them fall into the clutches of their own wicked leaders, and they will slay them. They shall turn the land into wilderness and I will not protect it from them.
Verses 16-17
Verse 16 – And he said to me, This illustrates how I will give this nation a shepard who will not care for the dying ones, nor look after the young, nor heal the brocken bones, nor feed the healthy ones, nor carry the lame that cannot walk; instead, he will eat fat ones, even tearing off their feet.
Verse 17 – Woe to this worthless shepard who dosen’t care for the flock. God’s sword will cut his arm and pierce through his right eye; his arm will become useless and his right eye blinded.
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