CLV(i)
4 Thus says Yahweh, my Elohim:Graze the flock for the killing,
5 whose acquirers will kill, yet will not be guilty. And their sellers will say, Blessed is Yahweh! And we shall be rich! And their own shepherds shall not spare them."
6 For I will no longer spare the dwellers of the land, (averring is Yahweh). And behold! I am causing humans to be found, each in the hand of his associate, and in the hand of his king. And they shall pound the land to pieces, yet I will not rescue from their hand."
7 And I will graze the flock for the killing, for the traffickers of the flock. And I am taking myself two sticks. One I call Pleasantness, and one I called Pledgers. And I am grazing the flock."
8 And I am suppressing three shepherds in one month. Yet my soul is impatient with them; and, moreover, their soul is nauseated with me."
9 Then I am saying, I will not graze you. The dying will die; and the suppressed will be suppressed; and the remainder will eat, each woman, of the flesh of her mate."
10 And I will take my stick, Pleasantness, and will hack it to pieces, to annul my covenant which I contracted with all the peoples."
11 And it will be annulled in that day. And the traffickers of the flock, who are observing me, shall know that it is the word of Yahweh."
12 And I am saying to them, If it is good in your eyes, grant my hire. And if not, forbear. And they are weighing my hire, thirty silverlings."
13 And Yahweh is saying to me, Fling it to the minter--the noble esteem with which I am esteemed by them! So I am taking the thirty silverlings and am flinging them to the minter in the house of Yahweh."
14 And I will hack to pieces the second stick, Pledgers, to annul the brotherhood between Judah and Israel."
15 Then Yahweh is saying to me, Further, take to you the implement of a foolish shepherd."
16 For behold! I am raising up a shepherd in the land. The suppressed he will not visit; the roving he will not seek; and the broken he will not heal; that which stands up he will not sustain. Yet the flesh of the plump he will eat, and their hoofs he will break off."
17 Woe! forbidden idol's shepherd! forsaker of the flock! A sword is on his arm and on his right eye! His arm shall be dried dry, and his right eye shall be dimmed dim."