Zechariah 11:6-10
Zechariah 11:6
For I will no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will let the people fall, each into another’s power and into the power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not rescue them from their power.”
Zechariah 11:7
So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, therefore also the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor, and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.
Zechariah 11:8
Then I did away with the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was tired of me.
Zechariah 11:9
Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to perish, let it perish; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”
Zechariah 11:10
And I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.