21 For the shepherds have behaved unreasoningly,+ and they have not looked even for Jehovah.+ That is why they have not acted with insight, and all their pastured animals have been scattered.”+

2 Therefore this is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said against the shepherds who are shepherding my people: “YOU yourselves have scattered my sheep; and YOU kept dispersing them, and YOU have not turned your attention to them.”+

“Here I am turning my attention upon YOU for the badness of YOUR dealings,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel,+ who have become feeders* of themselves!+ Is it not the flock that the shepherds ought to feed?+

5 the buyers of which proceed to kill+ [them] although they are not held guilty.+ And those who are selling+ them say: “May Jehovah be blessed, while I shall gain riches.”+ And their own shepherds do not show any compassion upon them.’+