1. “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! ” This is the Lord’s declaration.
2. “Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I will attend to you because of your evil acts” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
3. “I will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands where I have banished them, and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.
4. I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
5. “The days are coming” — this is the Lord’s declaration —“when I will raise up a Righteous Branch of David. He will reign wisely as kingand administer justice and righteousness in the land.
6. In His days Judah will be saved,and Israel will dwell securely. This is what He will be named:Yahweh Our Righteousness.
7. “The days are coming” — the Lord’s declaration — “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’
8. but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”
9. Concerning the prophets:My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble.I have become like a drunkard,like a man overcome by wine,because of the Lord,because of His holy words.
10. For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.Their way of life has become evil,and their power is not rightly used
11. because both prophet and priest are ungodly, even in My house I have found their evil.This is the Lord’s declaration.
12. Therefore, their way will be to themlike slippery paths in the gloom. They will be driven away and fall down there,for I will bring disaster on them,the year of their punishment. This is the Lord’s declaration.
13. Among the prophets of SamariaI saw something disgusting:They prophesied by Baaland led My people Israel astray.