⁸ “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,

²⁸ They will no longer be plunder to the nations, and the animals of the earth will not devour them; but they will ^(A)live securely, and no one will make them afraid.