Zechariah 11:3-9

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

4This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to 4slaughter. 5Those who buy them slaughter 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 compassion for them. 6For I will 9no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will 10let the people fall, each into another’s 11power and into the 12power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will 13not rescue them from their 14power.”

7So I 15pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, 16therefore also the 17afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two 18staffs: the one I called 1920Favor, and the other I called 21Union; so I pastured the flock. 8Then I did away with the three shepherds in 22one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also 23was tired of me. 9Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to 24die, 25let it die, and what is to perish, 26let it perish; and 27let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”