Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
God's heart is against the shepherds, and His face too. They had His commission to feed the flock, yet they took no care to shield them from idolaters or captors, as if no shepherd existed at all. Those who merely wear the name and authority of a shepherd, without faithfulness to the trust, will find that God does not stand with them but against them.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 34:7-16
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. Or, "ye governors", as the Targum, both civil and ecclesiastical; ye kings, princes, and magistrates; ye prophets and teachers of the people, who ought to have attended to the word of grace, to the doctrines of the Scriptures, and fed the people with them; but, since you have not, hear the word of threatening from the...
Therefore, ye shepherds, (ye bad and wicked shepherds), hear the word of the Lord - In the preceding character of the good shepherd the reader will find, by reversing the particulars, the character of a bad shepherd; and therefore I may be excused from entering into farther detail.