³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

^2 (A)“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: ^(B)Ah, shepherds of Israel ^(C)who have been feeding yourselves! ^(D)Should not shepherds feed the sheep? ^3 (E)You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, ^(F)you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. ^4 (G)The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, ^(H)the injured you have not bound up, ^(I)the strayed you have not brought back, ^(J)the lost you have not sought, and with force and ^(K)harshness you have ruled them.

⁴ Blessed shall be ^(A)the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

^26 (A)None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the ^(B)number of your days.

³⁰ For you had little before I came, ^(A)and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I ^(B)provide for my own household also?”

²⁷ But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that^[a] the Lord has blessed me because of you.