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For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

Those who buy them kill them and are not held guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich. And their shepherds do not pity them.

For I will never again pity those living in the land, says Jehovah. But, behold! I will cause to be found the men, each one into his neighbor's hand, and into his king's hand. And they shall strike the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.

And I fed the flock of slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.

I also cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul loathed them, and their soul also detested Me.

Then I said, I will not feed you; that which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off. And let the ones remaining, each woman, eat the flesh of her neighbor.

And I took My staff Kindness and broke it apart, to break My covenant which I had cut with all the peoples.

And it was broken in that day, and so the poor of the flock who were watching Me knew that it was the Word of Jehovah.

And I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give My price; and if not, let it go. And they weighed My price, thirty pieces of silver.

And Jehovah said to Me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it to the potter in the house of Jehovah.

Then I broke apart My second staff Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.