The Coming Messiah: the Righteous Branch

23 (A)Woe to the shepherds who are causing the (B)sheep of My pasture to (C)perish and are scattering them!” declares the Lord.

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25 There is a (A)conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have (B)devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many (C)widows in the midst of her.

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“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “certainly, because My flock has become (A)plunder, and My flock has become food for all the animals of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock, therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am (B)against the shepherds, and I will demand My [a]sheep [b]from them and make them (C)stop tending sheep. So the shepherds will not [c]feed themselves anymore, but I will (D)save My sheep from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:10 Or flock
  2. Ezekiel 34:10 Lit from their hand
  3. Ezekiel 34:10 Lit pasture, and so throughout the ch

Rulers Denounced

And I said,

(A)Hear now, you [a]leaders of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel:
Is it not for you to (B)know justice?
You who hate good and love evil,
Who (C)tear off their skin from them
And their flesh from their bones,
Who (D)eat the flesh of my people,
Strip off their skin from them,
Smash their bones,
And (E)chop them up as for the pot,
And as meat in a cauldron!”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 3:1 Lit heads

11 Her leaders pronounce (A)judgment for a bribe,
Her (B)priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,
(C)Is the Lord not in our midst?
Catastrophe will not come upon us.”

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