4. Thus said יהוה my Elohim, “Feed the flock for slaughter,
5. whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt, and their sellers say, ‘Blessed be יהוה, for I have become rich.’ And their own shepherds do not spare them.
6. “For I shall no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares יהוה. “But see, I am delivering up mankind, each one into his neighbour’s hand and into the hand of his sovereign. And they shall crush the earth, but I do not deliver from their hand.”
7. So I shepherded the flock meant for slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs, the one I called Pleasantness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock.
8. Then I sent off the three shepherds in one month, for my being despised them, and their being also loathed me.
9. So I said, “I am not shepherding you. Let the dying die, and the straying stray, and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
10. And I took my staff, Pleasantness, and cut it in two, to break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11. So it was broken on that day. And the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of יהוה.