As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep;
Y lyue, seith þe Lord God, for whi for þat þat my flockis ben maad in to raueyn, and my scheep in to deuouryng of alle beestis of þe feeld, for þat þat no scheepherde was, for þe scheepherdis souyten not my floc, but þe scheepherdis fedden hem silf, and fedden not my flockis; þerfor,