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Zechariah 11:1 (show verse)
That fire may devour your cedars.
Zechariah 11:2 (show verse)
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the magnificent trees have been destroyed;
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the inaccessible forest [on the steep mountainside] has come down.
Zechariah 11:3 (show verse)
There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,
For their splendor (grazing land) is ruined;
There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
Zechariah 11:4 (show verse)
Thus says the Lord my God, “Pasture the flock doomed for slaughter,
No Themes for this verse.
Zechariah 11:5 (show verse)
whose buyers slay them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them nor protect them [from the wolves].
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Zechariah 11:6 (show verse)
For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into the hand of another and into the hands of his [foreign] king. And the enemy will strike the land, and I will not rescue the people from their hand.”
No Themes for this verse.
Zechariah 11:7 (show verse)
So I [Zechariah] pastured the flock doomed for slaughter, truly [as the name implies] the most miserable of sheep. And I took two [shepherd’s] staffs, the one I called Favor (Grace) and the other I called Union (Bonds); so I pastured the flock.
Zechariah 11:8 (show verse)
Then I eliminated the three [incompetent, unfit] shepherds [the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets] in one month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me.
Zechariah 11:9 (show verse)
So I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let the survivors devour one another’s flesh.”
Zechariah 11:10 (show verse)
I took my staff, Favor, and broke it in pieces, breaking the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
Zechariah 11:11 (show verse)
So the covenant was broken on that day, and thus the most wretched of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.
Zechariah 11:12 (show verse)
I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, do not.” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver as my wages.
Zechariah 11:13 (show verse)
Zechariah 11:14 (show verse)
Then I broke my second staff, Union, into pieces to break the brotherhood between Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and Israel (the Northern Kingdom).
Zechariah 11:15 (show verse)
The Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment [of a shepherd, but this time] of a foolish shepherd.
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Zechariah 11:16 (show verse)
For behold, I am going to raise up a [false] shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or feed the healthy; but will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs [to consume everything].
Zechariah 11:17 (show verse)
“Woe (judgment is coming) to the worthless and foolish shepherd
Who deserts the flock!
The sword will strike his arm
And his right eye!
His arm shall be totally withered
And his right eye completely blinded.”
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