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So I said, “I will not shepherd you! The one dying will die, and the one to be destroyed will be destroyed. And the ones remaining, let them devour the flesh of each other.”[a] 10 And I took my staff Kindness and broke it, to break my covenant that I had made[b] with all the peoples. 11 And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted[c] of the flock,[d] the ones who were watching me, knew that it was the word of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:9 Literally “each the flesh of her neighbor”
  2. Zechariah 11:10 Literally “had cut”
  3. Zechariah 11:11 LXX reads “merchants (of the flock)” which is reflected in some English translations
  4. Zechariah 11:11 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)