Three, put for many, a definite for an indefinite number.
Shepherds, negligent or greatly faulty.
I cut off; put out of office, or, by discovering their faults, made them lie hid and conceal themselves. In one month; in a little time.
My soul loathed them; hated their treachery and idleness.
Their soul also abhorred me: disgraced and turned out, they hated him; in which these shepherds had too many of the Jews that sided with them, and that bore a hatred to the true Shepherd and to his impartial executing severity on the wicked shepherds.