9. Then I said, "I won’t shepherd you.Let the dying die,and let what is to be removed be removed.Let those who are left devour the flesh of their neighbor."
10. Then I took the staff Delight,and I chopped it up in order to break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
11. It was broken on that day.As a result, the afflicted of the flock knew that it was the Lord’s word.
12. And I said to them,"If it appears good to you, give me my wages;but if not, then stop."So they weighed out my wages, thirty shekels of silver.
13. The Lord said to me,"Put it in the treasury.They value me at too magnificent a price."So I took the thirty shekels of silverand put them in the treasury of the Lord’s house.
14. Then I chopped up my second staff Harmony,to break the alliance between Judah and Israel.
15. Then the Lord said to me,"Take for yourself again the equipment of a foolish shepherd,
16. because I am about to appoint a shepherd in the land.He won’t tend to those who have been removed.He won’t seek the young or heal the broken.He won’t sustain the one standing.Instead, he will devour the flesh of the fat ones, even tearing off their hooves.
17. Doom, foolish shepherd who forsakes the flock.A sword will strike his arm and his right eye.His arm will wither completely;his right eye will become blind."