⁵¹ Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

³⁴ Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

³⁵ For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law:

³⁶ and a man's foes `shall be' they of his own household.

⁷ So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

⁸ And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

¹⁰ And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

¹¹ And it was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

¹⁴ Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

⁴⁹ I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled?

⁷ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.

⁸ But all these things are the beginning of travail.

⁹ Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

¹⁰ And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.