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Zechariah 11:8
“I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.”
Verse in context — Zechariah 11
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
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.
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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.
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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