Zechariah 11:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ I will no longer have any pity for the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. Rather, I will deliver each one of them into the power of his neighbor or into the clutches of the king. They will devastate the earth, and I will not deliver anyone from their hands.

⁷ And so I became a shepherd of the flock that was destined to be slaughtered by the sheep dealers. I took two staffs, one of which I named Favor and the other one of which I named Unity, and I pastured the sheep myself. ⁸ In a single month I got rid of the three shepherds. However, I soon lost patience with the flock, and they detested me.