^{7 Ref} Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

^{8 Ref} And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.