God was going to do something about bad shepherds: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. . . . I will rescue my sheep from their mouths” (v. 10). How would he do this? By sending new shepherds? No, by coming himself to be the Great Shepherd: “I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD” (v. 15).
