I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

“In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.