Zechariah 11:4-14
4Thus says Yahweh my God, “Shepherd the flock doomed to aslaughter. 5“Those who buy them slaughter them and are not aheld guilty, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be Yahweh. Indeed, bI have become rich!’ And their cown shepherds do not spare them. 6“For I will ano longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh; “but behold, I will bcause the men to 1fall, each into another’s hand and into the hand of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will cnot deliver them from their hand.”
7So I ashepherded the flock doomed to slaughter—1hence the bafflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two cstaffs: the one I called 2,dFavor, and the other I called 3,eUnion; so I shepherded the flock. 8Then I annihilated the three shepherds in aone month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also 1was weary of me. 9Then I said, “I will not shepherd you. What is to adie, 1let it die, and what is to be annihilated, 2let it be annihilated; and 3let those who remain consume one another’s flesh.” 10And I took my staff 1,aFavor and cut it in pieces, to 2,bbreak my covenant which I had cut with all the peoples. 11So it was 1broken on that day, and 2thus the aafflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of Yahweh. 12And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my awages; but if not, 1never mind!” So they weighed out bthirty 2shekels of silver as my wages. 13Then Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the apotter, that valuable price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of Yahweh. 14Then I cut in pieces my second staff 1,aUnion, to bbreak the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.