"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah [making it superior],
And I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back [and allow them to live securely],
Because I have had compassion on them.
They will be as though I had not rejected them,
For I am the Lord their God, and I will listen and answer them.

So the LORD gave a loving and comfortable answer unto the angel that talked with me.

I myself fed the slaughter sheep, and poor flock verily; and took unto me two staffs: the one I called 'Loving Meekness,' the other I called 'Woe.' And so I kept the sheep.

I took also my Loving Meek staff, and brake it, that I might disannul the covenant, which I made with all people.

And saying to him, What these wounds between thy hands? And he said, Which I was struck in the house of those loving me.