Zechariah 11:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵         Those who buy them will kill them,
            but they will go unpunished.
        Those who sell them will say,
            “Blessed is the Lord, for I have become rich.”
                And their own shepherds won’t spare them.
⁶                 In fact, I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord.
        But look what I am about to bring upon humanity,
            upon each of them by their neighbor’s hand and by the hand of their king:
        They will beat the land to pieces,
            but I won’t rescue anyone from their hand.
⁷ So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter,
            the afflicted of the flock.^[a]
I took two staffs for myself.
        I named one Delight;
            the other I named Harmony.
I shepherded the flock.