"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD."
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Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.
Wo to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.