23 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasturage!”+ 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?+

8 And I finally effaced three shepherds in one lunar month,+ as my soul gradually became impatient with them,+ and also their own soul felt a loathing toward me.