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The sellers say, ‘Praise the LORD! Now I’m rich!’ Even the shepherds have no compassion for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Likewise, I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” says the LORD. “I will let them fall into each other’s hands and into the hands of their king. They will turn the land into a wilderness, and I will not rescue them.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So I cared for the flock intended for slaughter—the flock that was oppressed. Then I took two shepherd’s staffs and named one Favor and the other Union. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month.</p><p class="reg">But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So I told them, “I won’t be your shepherd any longer. If you die, you die. If you are killed, you are killed. And let those who remain devour each other!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, showing that I had revoked the covenant I had made with all the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>That was the end of my covenant with them. The suffering flock was watching me, and they knew that the LORD was speaking through my actions.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I said to them, “If you like, give me my wages, whatever I am worth; but only if you want to.” So they counted out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>”—this magnificent sum at which they valued me! So I took the thirty coins and threw them to the potter in the Temple of the LORD.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then I took my other staff, Union, and cut it in two, showing that the bond of unity between Judah and Israel was broken.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “Go again and play the part of a worthless shepherd. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>This illustrates how I will give this nation a shepherd who will not care for those who are dying, nor look after the young, nor heal the injured, nor feed the healthy. Instead, this shepherd will eat the meat of the fattest sheep and tear off their hooves.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“What sorrow awaits this worthless shepherd</p><p class="line2">who abandons the flock!</p><p class="line1">The sword will cut his arm</p><p class="line2">and pierce his right eye.</p><p class="line1">His arm will become useless,</p><p class="line2">and his right eye completely blind.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:13 </span><span class="ft">Syriac version reads </span><span class="it">into the treasury;</span><span class="ft"> also in 11:13b. 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