5 And they were scattered without a shepherd, and being scattered, they became food for every beast of the field.

6 My sheep are wandering in all the mountains, and in every high hill, and my sheep are scattered over all the face of the earth, and no one searches for them, and no one seeks them.

7 Therefore, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.

8 I live! saith the Lord God; because my sheep were left to be plundered, and my sheep became food for every beast of the field without a shepherd, and my shepherds did not seek my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, but did not feed my sheep,

9 therefore, shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.

10 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will seek my sheep out of their hand, and I will give them no more to feed the sheep, and the shepherds shall no more feed themselves, and I will pluck my sheep out of their jaws, and they shall not be their food.

11 For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I myself will seek out my sheep, and examine them.

12 As a shepherd trusts his flock in the day that he is in the midst of his scattered flock, so will I examine my sheep, and release them from all the places to which they were scattered in a cloudy and gloomy day.

13 And I will bring them out of the nations, and I will gather them out of the countries, and I will bring them into their land, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, and on the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the earth.

14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their corral will be on the high mountains of Israel; there they will rest in a good paddock and graze in the rich pasture, on the mountains of Israel.

15 I will feed my sheep, and I will give them rest, saith the Lord God.

16 That which is lost I will find, and that which was driven away, and that which is wounded, I will bind up, and I will strengthen that which is sick, and that which is fat and violent, I will destroy it. I will shepherd them in righteousness.

17 But you, my sheep, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will judge between sheep and sheep, between ram and goat.

18 Is it not enough for you that you feed in a good pasture, and yet you trample the rest of your pasture with your feet, and drink pure water, and muddy the rest with your feet?