Isa 56:10-12, Eze 22:25-28, 34:2, Zep 3:3, Zec 11:4-9, 16, Joh 10:1, Act 5:36 | ESV | STEP | His watchmen are blind ; they are all without knowledge ; they are all silent dogs ; they cannot bark , dreaming , lying down , loving to slumber .

Isaiah 56:10-12

10 ^aHis watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent ^bdogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 ^cThe dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But ^dthey are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
^eeach to his own gain, one and all.
12 ^f“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
^gand tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”

Ezekiel 22:25-28

25 ^hThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is ⁱlike a roaring lion ^jtearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 ^kHer priests ^lhave done violence to my law and ^mhave profaned my holy things. ⁿThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^othey have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^pso that I am profaned among them. 27 ^qHer princes in her midst are like wolves ^rtearing the prey, ^sshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And ^ther prophets have smeared whitewash for them, ^useeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

Ezekiel 34:2

2 ^v“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: ^wAh, shepherds of Israel ^xwho have been feeding yourselves! ^yShould not shepherds feed the sheep?

Zephaniah 3:3

3 ^zHer officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are ^aaevening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.

Zechariah 11:4-9

4 Thus said the Lord my God: ^ab“Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5 ^acThose who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, ^adI have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For ^aeI will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

7 ^afSo I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named ^agFavor, the other I named ^ahUnion. ^aiAnd I tended the sheep. 8 In one month ^ajI destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9 So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. ^akWhat is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”

Zechariah 11:16

16 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd ^alwho does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but ^amdevours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

John 10:1

I Am the Good Shepherd

1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.

Acts 5:36

36 For ^anbefore these days Theudas rose up, ^aoclaiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.