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I got rid of three shepherds in one month. I became impatient with the sheep, and they also became disgusted with me. So I said, “I won’t be your shepherd. Let those that are dying die. Let those that are missing stay missing. And let those that are left devour each other.”

10 Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it in pieces, to break the promise[a] that I had made to all the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:10 Or “covenant.”

In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested(A) me, and I grew weary of them and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish.(B) Let those who are left eat(C) one another’s flesh.”

10 Then I took my staff called Favor(D) and broke it, revoking(E) the covenant I had made with all the nations.

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