4  Thus saith the Lord my God; kFeed the flock of lthe slaughter;

5  Whose mpossessors lslay them, and nhold themselves not guilty:

And they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for oI am rich:

And their own shepherds pity them not.

6  For pI will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord:

But, lo, I will †deliver the men

Every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king:

And they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

7  And kI will feed the flock of slaughter, ||even you, rO poor of the flock.

And I took unto me two staves; the one I called sBeauty, and the other I called ||Bands; and ktI fed the flock. 8 Three shepherds also uI cut off in one month; and my soul †lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: vthat that dieth, let it die; and that that is to ube cut off, let it be ucut off; and let the rest weat every one the flesh †of another. 10 And I took my staff, even sBeauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. 11 And it was broken in that day: and ||so rthe poor of the flock xthat waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12 And I said unto them, †If ye think good, ygive me my price; and if not, forbear. So zthey weighed for my price athirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto bthe potter: ca dgoodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took athe thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even ||Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.