The Symbolic Acts of the True Shepherd

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So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

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I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

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Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”

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I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

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It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the LORD’s word.

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I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

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The LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the LORD’s house.

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Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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