4This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, 5whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.[ † ]Jeremiah 2:3Jeremiah 50:7Deuteronomy 29:19Hosea 12:81 Timothy 6:9Ezekiel 34:2-3
6For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the Lord, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.[ † ]Jeremiah 39:10Zephaniah 3:12Matthew 11:5
8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.[ † ]Hosea 5:7 9Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”[ † ]Jeremiah 15:2
10Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. 11It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord.[ † ]Zephaniah 3:12Matthew 27:50Mark 15:37Luke 23:46Acts 8:32
12Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.[ † ]Genesis 37:28Exodus 21:32Matthew 26:15Matthew 27:9-10
13And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord.[ † ]Matthew 27:3-10Acts 1:18-19
14Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15And the Lord said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.[ † ]Isaiah 56:11Ezekiel 34:2 16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.[ † ]Ezekiel 34:1-10Micah 3:1-3