"Woe to the shepherds who scatter and tear apart the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord.
John 10:8 - Catholic Public Domain Version All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All others who came [as such] before Me are thieves and robbers, but the [true] sheep did not listen to and obey them. American Standard Version (1901) All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. Common English Bible All who came before me were thieves and outlaws, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. English Standard Version 2016 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. |
"Woe to the shepherds who scatter and tear apart the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord.
"Son of man, prophesy about the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and you shall say to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?
Her leaders are in her midst like roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing for the morning.
For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.
"Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he is a thief and a robber.
But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."
For before these days, Theudas stepped forward, asserting himself to be someone, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined with him. But he was killed, and all who believed in him were scattered, and they were reduced to nothing.