And they were scattered] Spiritually, by running into errours, superstitions, idolatries, vices, and disorders or corporally, by their dissipation out of their countrey by the ill leading of their guides. because there is no shepherd] Or, without a shepherd, and so vers. 8. That is, no true and faithfull shepherd. For lacke of good government and doctrin they perished. Zechariah 12:7.