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14 Then I broke my second staff Unity to break the family ties between Judah and Israel.

15 And Yahweh said to me, “Take again the implements[a] of a foolish shepherd. 16 For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not attend to the ones that are perishing; he will not seek the young man,[b] he will not heal the ones that are crushed and he will not sustain the healthy ones; he will devour the flesh of the fattened ones[c] and tear apart even their hoofs.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:15 Hebrew “implement”
  2. Zechariah 11:16 Syriac and other ancient versions read “the wandering” or “the scattered,” as do several English translations
  3. Zechariah 11:16 Literally “the stall-fed”