4. Yahweh my God says this: “Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.
5. Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the Lord because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
6. Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land” — this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”
7. So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
8. In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
9. Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is going astray go astray; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.”
10. Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples.
11. It was annulled on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
12. Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed my wages, 30 pieces of silver.