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Zechariah 11

11 Open your doors,

Lebanon, that fire may devour among your cedars!

2 Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic ones have been devastated!

Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the fortified forest has gone down.

3 The voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is devastated!

The voice of the roaring of the young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is devastated!

4 Thus says Yahweh my God, “Shepherd the flock of slaughter 5 which the buyers kill and are not held guilty, and the ones selling them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I have become rich!’ And their shepherds do not pity them. 6 Certainly I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land”— the declaration of Yahweh— “and behold, I am causing mankind to fall, each man, in the hand of his neighbor and in the hand of his king, and they will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

7 And I shepherded the flock of slaughter, therefore the poor of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs. For the one I called Favor, and for the other I called Union, and I shepherded the flock. 8 And I destroyed the three shepherds in one month.

And my soul became short with them, and also their soul loathed me. 9 And I said, “I will not shepherd you. The one dying, let it die, and the one being destroyed, let it be destroyed, and the ones remaining, let them eat, each one the flesh of her companion.”

10 And I took my staff Favor, and I chopped it up, to break my covenant that I had cut with all the peoples. 11 And it was broken on that day, and so the poor ones of the flock, the ones watching me, knew that it was the word of Yahweh. 12 And I said to them, “If it is good in your eyes, give my wages; but if not, refrain.” And they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

13 And Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the magnificence of the price at which I was valued by them!” And I took the thirty, pieces of silver and threw it into the house of Yahweh, to the potter. 14 And I chopped up my second staff, Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and between Israel.

15 And Yahweh said to me, “Again, take for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd, 16 for behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land. He will not attend to the ones being destroyed; he will not seek the scattered one; and he will not heal the broken one; he will not sustain the one standing; but he will eat the flesh of the fat one, and he will tear off their hooves.

17 Woe, worthless shepherd,

the one forsaking the flock!

A sword against his arm and against his right eye!

His arm withering will wither, and his right eye dimming will dim!”

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