⁴ Thus says Yahweh my God, “Shepherd the flock doomed to ^(A)slaughter. ⁵ Those who buy them slaughter them and are not ^(B)held guilty, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be Yahweh. Indeed, ^(C)I have become rich!’ And their ^(D)own shepherds do not spare them. ⁶ For I will ^(E)no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh; “but behold, I will ^(F)cause the men to ^[a]fall, each into another’s hand and into the hand of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will ^(G)not deliver them from their hand.”

⁷ So I ^(H)shepherded the flock doomed to slaughter—^[b]hence the ^(I)afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^(J)staffs: the one I called ^[c](K)Favor, and the other I called ^[d](L)Union; so I shepherded the flock. ⁸ Then I annihilated the three shepherds in ^(M)one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^[e]was weary of me. ⁹ Then I said, “I will not shepherd you. What is to ^(N)die, ^[f]let it die, and what is to be annihilated, ^[g]let it be annihilated; and ^[h]let those who remain consume one another’s flesh.” ¹⁰ And I took my staff ^[i](O)Favor and cut it in pieces, to ^[j](P)break my covenant which I had cut with all the peoples. ¹¹ So it was ^[k]broken on that day, and ^[l]thus the ^(Q)afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of Yahweh. ¹² And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^(R)wages; but if not, ^[m]never mind!” So they weighed out ^(S)thirty ^[n]shekels of silver as my wages. ¹³ Then Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the ^(T)potter, that valuable price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of Yahweh. ¹⁴ Then I cut in pieces my second staff ^[o](U)Union, to ^(V)break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.