“Therefore,
You shepherds!
Hear
The word of Yahweh!
Thus says Yahweh God!
‘I am
Against the shepherds!
I will demand
My sheep
At their hand.
I will put a stop
To their feeding
Of the sheep.
No longer
Shall the shepherds
Feed themselves.
I will rescue
My sheep
From their mouths.
Thus,
These sheep
May not
Be food
For them.’”
Yahweh, via Ezekiel, was mad at the shepherds of Israel. They were to listen to the word of Yahweh. Yahweh, their God, wanted his sheep back. These shepherds or leaders of Israel were to stop eating his sheep. Yahweh was going to rescue his sheep from the mouths of these shepherds. Yahweh’s sheep would no longer be their food.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 