As part of the lead up to Advent readings, we're reading the final prophets before God speaking to Israel appears to have gone dark for several hundred years. We are now in the next to the last prophet before Jesus' birth, Zechariah. The Book of Zechariah was written between 520 and 480 BC.
Check out the video below. Today's readings are part of the video section from mark 6:02 to about 6:32.
11:7 So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the oppressed of the flock.[LXX reads slaughter that belonged to the sheep merchants] I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock. 8 In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9 Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is perishing perish; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.” 10 Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples. 11 It was annulled on that day, and so the oppressed of the flock [LXX reads and the sheep merchants] who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12 Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
13 “Throw it to the potter,” [Syr reads treasury] the Lord said to me—this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the Lord, to the potter. [One Hb ms, Syr read treasury] 14 Then I cut in two my second staff, Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 The Lord also said to me, “Take the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 16 I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are perishing, and he will not seek the lost [Or young] or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, [Or exhausted] but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.
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Woe to the worthless shepherd
who deserts the flock!
May a sword strike [Lit be against] his arm
and his right eye!
May his arm wither away
and his right eye go completely blind!”
CSB
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