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.
11. So it was broken on that day. The merchants of the flock, who were watching me, understood that this was the word of the Lord.
12. Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them.” And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
13. Then the Lord said to me, Throw it in the treasury—the handsome price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the Lord.
14. Then I snapped in two my second staff, Union, breaking the kinship between Judah and Israel.
15. The Lord said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd.
16. For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that disappear, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed the exhausted; but he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!
17. Ah! my worthless shepherdwho forsakes the flock!May the sword fall upon his armand upon his right eye;His arm will surely wither,and his right eye surely go blind!