Zechariah 11:3-9

3There is a sound of the shepherds’ 1wail, For their glory is ruined; There is a 2sound of the young lions’ roar, For the 3pride of the Jordan is ruined.

4Thus says the Lord my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to 4slaughter. 5Those who buy them slay them and 5go 6unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for 7I have become rich!’ And their 8own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For I will 9no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will 10cause the men to 11fall, each into another’s 12power and into the 13power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will 14not deliver them from their 15power.”

7So I 16pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, 17hence the 18afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two 19staffs: the one I called 2021Favor and the other I called 2223Union; so I pastured the flock. 8Then I annihilated the three shepherds in 24one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also 25was weary of me. 9Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to 26die, 27let it die, and what is to be annihilated, 28let it be annihilated; and 29let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”