12. Then I said, “If you want to pay me, pay me. If not, then don’t.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.
13. The Lord said to me, “Throw the money to the potter.” That is how little they thought I was worth. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the Temple of the Lord.
14. Then I broke the second stick, named Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15. Then the Lord said to me, “Get the things used by a foolish shepherd again,
16. because I am going to get a new shepherd for the country. He will not care for the dying sheep, or look for the young ones, or heal the injured ones, or feed the healthy. But he will eat the best sheep and tear off their hoofs.
17. “How terrible it will be for the useless shepherdwho abandoned the flock.A sword will strike his arm and his right eye.His arm will lose all its strength,and his right eye will go blind.”