3. Listen! the wailing of shepherds,their glory has been destroyed.Listen! the roaring of young lions,the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
4. Thus says the Lord, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered.
5. For they who buy them slay them and are not held accountable; while those who sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich!” Even their own shepherds will not pity them.
6. For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the earth—oracle of the Lord.—Yes, I will deliver them into each other’s power, or into the power of their kings; they will crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.
7. So I shepherded the flock to be slaughtered for the merchants of the flock. I took two staffs: one I called Delight, and the other Union. Thus I shepherded the flock.
8. In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.
9. “I will not shepherd you,” I said. “Whoever is to die shall die; whoever is to be done away with shall be done away with; and those who are left shall devour one another’s flesh.”
10. Then I took my staff Delight and snapped it in two, breaking my covenant which I had made with all peoples.