⁷ Therefore, hear, O shepherds, the word of Yahweh: ⁸ “As I live,”^[a] declares^[b] the Lord Yahweh, “Surely^[c] because my flock have become as plunder, and my flock became as food to^[d] all the animals^[e] of the field, since there was not a shepherd, since my shepherds have not sought my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and they fed not my flock,’” ⁹ therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh,