Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 34:3

3 Ye eat the fat , and ye clothe you with the wool , ye kill them that are fed; but ye feed not the flock.

Rather the milk which insatiably, and without measure you devour: you exhaust their purses, and weaken their Estates by Tributes, exacted by extortions, so the Temporal Rulers, and the Spiritual Rulers had their methods, and arts to milk them dry, these lived on the sins of the people.

With best and finest, as best suiting with your pride, and luxury, on which you force the people to bestow so much, they have not to clothe themselves and theirs, this was mighty oppression.

Contrive methods for a seeming legal course to forfeit, first the Life, and next the Estate of the well fed, the rich and wealthy and then make merry and Feast, as voluptuous unfaithful shepherds feast on the fattest of the Sheep in their masters sold.

Take no care to lead, protect, provide for, and watch over them, but as idle shepheards, feasted with the fattest, let the rest starve for any thing they care.

Marginal references: Zech. 11.16.