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Zechariah

ESV

Chapter 11

¹Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! ²Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down! ³Listen to the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! Listen to the roar of the lions, for the pride of the Jordan is ruined! ⁴Thus said the LORD my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. ⁵Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them. ⁶For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD. But behold, I will let the people fall each into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand.” ⁷So I became shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered, in particular, the most afflicted of the sheep. And I took two staffs, one I called Favor, and the other I called Union. And I tended the sheep. ⁸In one month I destroyed the three shepherds, for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also detested me. ⁹So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.” ¹⁰Then I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. ¹¹So it was annulled on that day, and the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD. ¹²Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. ¹³Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was evaluated by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter. ¹⁴Then I broke my second staff, Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. ¹⁵Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. ¹⁶For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who will not care for those that are dwindling, or seek the scattered, or heal the broken, or nourish the healthy, but he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear off their hoofs. ¹⁷“Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”