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This is what the Lord God says: I am against the shepherds. I will blame them for what has happened to my sheep and will not let them tend the flock anymore. Then the shepherds will stop feeding themselves, and I will take my flock from their mouths so they will no longer be their food.

"‘This is what the Lord God says: I, myself, will search for my sheep and take care of them.

I will feed my flock and lead them to rest, says the Lord God .

"‘This is what the Lord God says: As for you, my flock, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the male sheep and the male goats.

"‘So this is what the Lord God says to them: I, myself, will judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

Then I, the Lord , will be their God, and my servant David will be a ruler among them. I, the Lord , have spoken.

Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them. The nation of Israel will know that they are my people, says the Lord God .

You, my human sheep, are the sheep I care for, and I am your God, says the Lord God .'"

Say to it: ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am against you, Edom. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you an empty desert.

So the Lord God says, as surely as I live, I will let you be murdered. Murder will chase you. Since you did not hate murdering people, murder will chase you.

So this is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, I will treat you just as you treated them. You were angry and jealous because you hated them. So I will punish you and show the Israelites who I am.

This is what the Lord God says: All the earth will be happy when I make you an empty ruin.

This is what the Lord God says: The enemy has said about you, "Now the old places to worship gods have become ours."'

So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord God says: They have made you an empty ruin and have crushed you from all around. So you became a possession of the other nations. People have talked and whispered against you.

So, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God . The Lord God speaks to the mountains, hills, ravines, and valleys, to the empty ruins and abandoned cities that have been robbed and laughed at by the other nations.

This is what the Lord God says: I speak in hot anger against the other nations. I speak against the people of Edom, who took my land for themselves with joy and with hate in their hearts. They forced out the people and took their pastureland.'

So prophesy about the land of Israel and say to the mountains, hills, ravines, and valleys: ‘This is what the Lord God says: I speak in my jealous anger, because you have suffered the insults of the nations.

So this is what the Lord God says: I promise that the nations around you will also have to suffer insults.

"‘This is what the Lord God says: People say about you, "You eat people and take children from your nation."

But you will not eat people anymore or take away the children, says the Lord God .