The Symbolic Acts of the True Shepherd

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For I fed the sheepe of slaughter, euen the poore of the flocke, and I tooke vnto me two staues: the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the sheepe.

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Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule abhorred me.

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Then said I, I will not feede you: that that dyeth, let it dye: and that that perisheth, let it perish: and let the remnant eate, euery one the flesh of his neighbour.

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And I tooke my staffe, euen Beautie, and brake it, that I might disanull my couenant, which I had made with all people.

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And it was broken in that day: and so the poore of the sheepe that waited vpon me, knew that it was the worde of the Lord.

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And I said vnto them, If ye thinke it good, giue me my wages: and if no, leaue off: so they weighed for my wages thirtie pieces of siluer.

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And the Lord said vnto me, Cast it vnto the potter: a goodly price, that I was valued at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.

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Then brake I mine other staffe, euen the Bandes, that I might dissolue the brotherhood betweene Iudah and Israel.

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