leadership. It is clear in this text that God holds the leadership accountable for their mistreatment and mismanagement of his flock. The text also makes clear God’s commitment to make things right for his people. In judgment he scattered his flock, but in grace and mercy he will gather them. The promise here concerns the ending of the exile and the beginning of a new history for God’s people. God will act in a new way to bring deliverance and a new exodus for his people that will be far more dramatic