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"Those whobuy them slay them and gounpunished*, and each of those who sell them says, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I have becomerich!' And their own shepherdshavenopity on them.
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"For I will nolongerhavepity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another'spower and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power."
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So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself twostaffs: the one I calledFavor and the other I calledUnion; so I pastured the flock.
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Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are lefteatoneanother'sflesh."
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Then the LORDsaid to me, "Throw it to the potter, that magnificentprice at which I was valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.