³ You eat the fat; you clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatted calves, but you do not feed the sheep.^{(A) 4} You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.^{(B) 5} So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and scattered they became food for all the wild animals.^{(C) 6} My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with no one to search or seek for them.

²¹ Because you pushed with flank and shoulder and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide,

⁸ of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no longer oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.^(A)

Social Evils Denounced