World English Bible
"I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples."
— Zechariah 11:10, World English Bible
“And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.”
“And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. ”
“Then I took my staff“Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.”
“And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to make void my covenant, which I had made with all people.”
“And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.”
“And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.”
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.
It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
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.
Yahweh 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 house of Yahweh.