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Zechariah 11:1 (show verse)
and fire will consume your cedars.
Zechariah 11:2 (show verse)
the glorious trees are destroyed!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the stately forest has fallen!
Zechariah 11:3 (show verse)
for their glory is destroyed.
Listen to the roar of young lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan
Zechariah 11:4 (show verse)
Yahweh my God says this: “Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.
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Zechariah 11:5 (show verse)
Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the Lord because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
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Zechariah 11:6 (show verse)
Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”
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Zechariah 11:7 (show verse)
So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
Zechariah 11:8 (show verse)
In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
Zechariah 11:9 (show verse)
Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is going astray go astray; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.”
Zechariah 11:10 (show verse)
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples.
Zechariah 11:11 (show verse)
It was annulled on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
Zechariah 11:12 (show verse)
Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed my wages, 30 pieces of silver.
Zechariah 11:13 (show verse)
“Throw it to the potter,” the Lord said to me—this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the 30 pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
Zechariah 11:14 (show verse)
Then I cut in two my second staff, Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Zechariah 11:15 (show verse)
The Lord also said to me: “Take the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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Zechariah 11:16 (show verse)
I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.
Zechariah 11:17 (show verse)
who deserts the flock!
May a sword strike
and his right eye!
May his arm wither away
and his right eye go completely blind!”
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