OET INT FRT GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET ZEC Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C12 C13 C14
OET ZEC 11 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17
This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
so that fire can devour your cedar trees.
2 Wail, cypress trees, because the cedar trees have fallen.
What was majestic has been devastated.
Wail, you Bashan oaks, because the strong forest has come down.
3 Listen to the shepherds wail,
because their pride and joy has been destroyed.
≈ Listen to the young lions roaring,
≈ because the pride of the Yarden (Jordan) river has been devastated.
11:2 OSHB variant note: ה/בצור: (x-qere) ’הַ/בָּצִֽיר’: lemma=d/1219 n=0 morph=HTd/Ncmsa id=38ckH הַ/בָּצִֽיר
11:4 The two shepherds
4 My god Yahweh says: “Be like a shepherd who’s watching over the flock that have been marked to be slaughtered. 5 The ones who buy them, slaughter them and aren’t punished, and the ones who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh. I’ve become rich.’ because the shepherds working for the flocks’ owners have no pity on them.
6 This is Yahweh’s declaration: I will no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. Listen, I’m about to allow everyone to be taken over by their neighbours and by their king and allow them to destroy the land, and I won’t rescue anyone from them.”
7 So I became the shepherd of the flock that had been marked for slaughter—the ones who were suffering the most. I took two shepherd’s staffs—I named one ‘Favour’, and the other I named ‘Unity’, and then I shepherded the flock. 8 Then I destroyed the three shepherds—in one month I became impatient with them, and they also hated me. 9 So I said to the owners, “I won’t work for you any longer as a shepherd. The sheep that are dying—let them die. The sheep that are being destroyed—let them be destroyed. Let the sheep that remain start eating each other.”
10 Then I took my staff named ‘Favour’ and broke it to break the agreement that I’d made with all of my tribes. 11 So the agreement was broken on that day, and the ones in the flock who were suffering the most and who were watching me, knew that Yahweh had spoken. 12 Then I told them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages, but if not, don’t bother.” So they paid me thirty silver coins.[ref]
13 Then Yahweh told me, “Give the money to the potter[fn]—the pathetic amount that they valued you at.” So I took the thirty silver coins and tossed them to the potter in Yahweh’s temple. 14 Then I broke my second staff named ‘Unity’ to break the brotherhood between Yehudah (Judah) and Yisrael (Israel).
15 After that, Yahweh told me, “Again, take the equipment of a simple shepherd for yourself, 16 because listen, I’m about to set a shepherd in place in the land who won’t care for those who are dying. He won’t seek out the sheep gone missing, nor will he heal the crippled sheep. He won’t feed the sheep that are healthy, but he’ll tear off the hooves of the fattened sheep and eat them for meat.
17 The worthless shepherd who abandons the flock won’t end well.
May the sword come against his arm and his right eye.
≈ May his arm wither away and may his right eye become blind.”
11:13 potter (following the Hebrew): in the ancient Syriac translation, they used ‘treasury’ (2x) in this verse, so some other English translations might differ.
