Zechariah 11:4-14
4Thus said the Lord my God: a“Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5 bThose who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, cI have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For dI will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”7 eSo I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named fFavor, the other I named gUnion. hAnd I tended the sheep. 8In one month iI destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. jWhat is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.” 10And I took kmy staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages lthirty pieces of silver. 13Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”— mthe lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the nthirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. 14Then I broke omy second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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