Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.”(A)

So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the oppressed of the flock.[a] I took two staffs, calling one Favor(B) and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock. In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:7 LXX reads slaughter that belonged to the sheep merchants

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