Bible Verses

and in all the land, two-thirds shall be destroyed and one-third left.

“Sword, awake, and strike my shepherd, the man who is near to me!” says the Lord, God of hosts. “Strike the shepherd and let the flock be scattered!” The Lord threatens: “I will turn against the little ones,

Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons his flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm wither and his right eye be blind!”

for I am going to raise up another shepherd, who will care nothing for lost sheep, nor will he search for strays, nor bind up the injured, and will pasture those that survive. No, but he will eat the fat ones and tear off their hooves.”

Then the Lord said to me: “Take another disguise, one that is suitable for a foolish shepherd;

I then snapped my second staff, Bonds, in two, ending the friendship between Judah and Israel.

And the Lord said to me: “Throw it into the treasury, this splendid sum at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the Lord’s house.

I then said to them: “If you agree, give me my wages; otherwise, let it go.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

It was broken off that day; and the sheep merchants who watched knew it was the Lord who had spoken.

Then I took and broke my staff Favor, to break the Covenant I had made with all nations.