Zechariah 11:4–14

⁴Thus said Jehovah my God: ‘Feed the flock of the slaughter, ⁵Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed is Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them. ⁶For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.’ ⁷And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock. ⁸And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me. ⁹And I say, ‘I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.’ ¹⁰And I take My staff Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to make void My covenant that I had made with all the peoples: ¹¹and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it is a word of Jehovah. ¹²And I say unto them: ‘If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;’ and they weigh out my hire—thirty silverlings. ¹³And Jehovah saith unto me, ‘Cast it unto the potter;’ the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty silverlings, and cast them to the house of Jehovah, unto the potter. ¹⁴And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Judah and Israel.