10. I took the staff named Favor and cut it into pieces, to break the covenant that I made with all the peoples.
11. So it was broken that day, and the afflicted of the flock were watching me and knew that this was the word of the Lord.
12. Then I said to them, “If this is good in your eyes, then give my wages to me, but if not, then keep it.” They weighed my wages at thirty pieces of silver.
13. Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the splendid price by which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty silver pieces and threw them to the house of the Lord to the potter.
14. Then I cut up the second staff, Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15. Then the Lord said to me: Take for yourself again the vessels carried by a foolish shepherd.
16. I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are perishing, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor feed those who are standing still. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hoofs in pieces.
17. Woe to this worthless shepherdwho abandons his flock.May the sword take his arm and right eye;may his arm surely wither up,and his right eye become blind.