Thus said the LORD my god: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them. For I 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 neighbour, and each into the hand of his king, anf they shall creush the land and I shall deliver none from their hand."
So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favour, and the other Union. And I tended the sheep. In one month I destroyed three shepherds. But I became impatient with them and they also detested me.
So I said 'I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour one another.'
So I took my staff Favour and I broke it, annulling the covenant I had made with the peoples. So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Then 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 30 pieces of silver. Then the LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter' - the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the 30 pieces, and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter. Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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