⁷ So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slain for those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.

⁸ In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

⁹ So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another.”

¹⁰ And I took my staff Grace, and I broke it, annulling the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

¹¹ So it was annulled on that day, and the traffickers in the sheep, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.

¹² Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver.

¹³ Then the Lord said to me, “Cast it into the treasury”^[a]—the lordly price at which I was paid off by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and cast them into the treasury^[b] in the house of the Lord.

¹⁴ Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.