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4 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, you are feeding the flock prepared for slaughter,
5 which the possessors were slaughtering, and spared not; and they who sold them said, "Blessed be the Lord for we are enriched, " and their shepherds had no feeling for them.
6 Therefore I will no more spare the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord. Now behold I deliver up the men, every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.
7 Again I will feed the flock of the slaughter for Chananites; and I will take me two staves, one I had called Beauty, and the other I called Portion; and I will feed the flock,
8 and remove three shepherds in one month; and my soul will be weighed down against them. For as their souls roared against me,
9 therefore I said, I will not feed you, What is dying let it die; and what is fainting let it faint. And as for the rest, let them devour every one the flesh of his neighbour.
10 And I will take my staff Beauty and throw it away, that I may break my covenant which I made with all these tribes.
11 And on that day it shall be broken; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know for what cause there is a word of the Lord.
12 Then I will say to them, If it seemeth good in your sight, give me my wages; if not, forbear. And when they had weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver;
13 then the Lord said to me, Put them in the smelting furnace, and let me see whether it be proof: as I have been proved for them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them down in the house of the Lord, for the smelting furnace.
14 Then I threw away the other staff Portion, that I may break the jointenancy between Juda and Israel.
15 Then the Lord said to me, Take thee yet the pastoral utensils of an unskilful shepherd;
16 for behold I am about to raise up a shepherd against this land, who will not visit what is fainting, nor seek what is scattered; nor heal what is bruised; nor lead aright what is sound; but will devour the flesh of the choice, and tear their joints asunder.
17 ye feeders of vanities who have forsaken the sheep. There is a sword against his arms, and against his right eye. Shall his arm be quite withered, and his right eye utterly put out?