19 Will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for scraps of bread,+ putting to death those* who should not die and keeping alive those* who should not live, doing so by your lies to my people, who listen to your lies?”’+

2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to the shepherds, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel,+ who have been feeding themselves! Is it not the flock that the shepherds should feed?+