⁴ This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to ^(A)slaughter. ⁵ Those who buy them slaughter them and ^[a]go ^(B)unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for ^(C)I have become rich!’ And their ^(D)own shepherds have no compassion for them. ⁶ For I will ^(E)no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will ^(F)let the people fall, each into another’s ^[b]power and into the ^[c]power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will ^(G)not rescue them from their ^[d]power.”

⁷ So I ^(H)pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ^[e]therefore also the ^(I)afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^(J)staffs: the one I called ^[f](K)Favor, and the other I called ^(L)Union; so I pastured the flock. ⁸ Then I did away with the three shepherds in ^(M)one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^[g]was tired of me. ⁹ Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^(N)die, ^[h]let it die, and what is to perish, ^[i]let it perish; and ^[j]let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” ¹⁰ And I took my staff ^[k](O)Favor and cut it in pieces, to ^[l](P)break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. ¹¹ So it was ^[m]broken on that day, and ^[n]so the ^(Q)afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. ¹² And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^(R)wages; but if not, ^[o]never mind!” So they weighed out ^(S)thirty shekels of silver as my wages. ¹³ Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^(T)potter, that magnificent 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 the Lord. ¹⁴ Then I cut in pieces my second staff ^(U)Union, to ^(V)break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.