Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Ver. 10. Behold, I am against the shepherds.] Heb., Lo, I against, - by an angry aposiopesis. a
And cause them to cease from feeding the flock.] They shall be officiperdae, quondams, laid aside like broken vessels, as have been some kings of this land in their several generations - one of recent remembrance - Popish bishops not a few, Bonner and others, outed and deprived.
a A rhetorical artifice, in which the speaker comes to a sudden halt, as if unable or unwilling to proceed.