Zechariah 11

A somber passage on shepherds. Zechariah enacts the role of a shepherd for “the flock doomed to slaughter,” taking two staffs named “Favor” and “Union.” When the flock detests him and he grows weary of them, he breaks the staff Favor, annulling the covenant, and asks for his wages: they weigh out “thirty pieces of silver,” which the LORD calls “the lordly price at which I was priced by them,” and Zechariah throws it “into the house of the LORD, to the potter.” He then breaks the second staff, and God raises up instead “a worthless shepherd” who devours the flock rather than tending it.