Zechariah 11:10-17 ▼

10 And I take my staff Pleasantness, and cut it apart, to make void my covenant that I had made with all the peoples:

11 and it is broken in that day, and the afflicted of the flock who are observing me know well, that it [is] a word of YHWH.

12 And I say to them: “If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, refrain”; and they weigh out my hire—thirty pieces of silver.

13 And YHWH says to me, “Cast it to the potter”; the good price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them [into] the house of YHWH, to the potter.

14 And I cut apart my second staff, Bands, || To break the unity between Judah and Israel.

15 And YHWH says to me, “Again take to yourself the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

16 For behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, || The cut off he does not inspect, || The shaken off he does not seek, || And the broken he does not heal, || The standing he does not sustain, || And the flesh of the fat he eats, || And their hooves he breaks off.

17 Woe [to] the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, || A sword [is] on his arm, and on his right eye, || His arm is utterly dried up, || And his right eye is very dim!”