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Zechariah 11 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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The Doomed Flock

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Open your doors, Lebanon,

So that a fire may feed on your cedars.

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Wail, juniper, because the cedar has fallen,

For the magnificent trees have been destroyed;

Wail, oaks of Bashan,

Because the [fn]impenetrable forest has come down.

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There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,

For their splendor is ruined;

There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,

For the [fn]pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:5 - “Those who buy them slaughter them and [fn]go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - “For I will no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will let the people fall, each into another’s [fn]power and into the [fn]power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not rescue them from their [fn]power.”

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So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, [fn]therefore also the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [fn]Favor, and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:8 - Then I did away with the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also [fn]was tired of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9 - Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, [fn]let it die, and what is to perish, [fn]let it perish; and [fn]let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:10 - And I took my staff [fn]Favor and cut it in pieces, to [fn]break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:11 - So it was [fn]broken on that day, and [fn]so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, [fn]never mind!” So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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And the LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - “For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

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“Woe to the worthless shepherd

Who abandons the flock!

A sword will be on his arm

And on his right eye!

His arm will be totally withered,

And his right eye will be [fn]blind.”

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Another reading is forest of the vintage
Or thicket
Lit are not held guilty
Lit hand
Lit hand
Lit hand
Another reading is for the sheep dealers
Or Pleasantness
Or detested
Or will die
Or will perish
Or those...will eat
Or Pleasantness
Or annul
Or annulled
Another reading is the sheep dealers who
Lit cease
Lit completely dimmed
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Zechariah Chapter 11 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras