For {it was} little which thou hadst before I {came}, and it is {now} increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? {increased: Heb. broken forth} {since...: Heb. at my foot}

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe {be} to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Blessed {shall be} the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, {tarry: for} I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Give {me} my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, {which} shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. {cut off: or, hidden} {feed: or, bear}

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, {and} look well to thy herds. {look...: Heb. set thy heart}