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Rh And I said unto them: 'If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear.' So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver. And the said unto me: 'Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price that I was prized at of them.' And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the treasury, in the house of the. Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken.

And the said unto me : 'Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not think of those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are young, nor heal that which is broken; neither will he feed that which standeth still, but he will eat the flesh of the fat, and will break their hoofs in pieces.'


 * Woe to the worthless shepherd
 * That leaveth the flock!
 * The sword shall be upon his arm,
 * And upon his right eye;
 * His arm shall be clean dried up,
 * And his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

The burden of the word of the concerning Israel.


 * The saying of the, who stretched forth the heavens,
 * And laid the foundation of the earth,
 * And formed the spirit of man within him.
 * Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering
 * Unto all the peoples round about,
 * And upon Judah also shall it fall to be in the siege against Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass in that day,


 * That I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all the peoples;
 * All that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded;
 * And all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.
 * In that day, saith the ,
 * I will smite every horse with bewilderment,
 * And his rider with madness;
 * And I will open Mine eyes upon the house of Judah,
 * And will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.
 * And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their heart:
 * 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength
 * Through the of hosts their God.'
 * In that day will I make the chiefs of Judah
 * Like a pan of fire among wood,
 * And like a torch of fire among sheaves;
 * And they shall devour all the peoples round about,
 * On the right hand and on the left;
 * And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
 * The also shall save the tents of Judah first,
 * That the glory of the house of David
 * And the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.
 * In that day shall the defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
 * And he that stumbleth among them at that day shall be as David,
 * And the house of David shall be as a godlike being,
 * As the angel of the before them.