4. Thus says the Lord my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.
5. Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, 'Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!' And their own shepherds have no pity on them.
6. For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the Lord; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another's power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power."
7. So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.
8. Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.
9. Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another's flesh."
10. I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11. So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.