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14 Then I broke my second staff—the one I had named “Union”—breaking the union between the house of Judah and the house of Israel.

God’s Curse on the Worthless Shepherd

15 The Lord told me, “Pick up the tools of a worthless shepherd again, 16 for I am now raising up a shepherd in the land who will neither search for the lost, nor care for the young, nor fix the broken, nor sustain the healthy. Instead, he will devour the meat of the best of the sheep, tearing off their hoofs.”

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