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Zechariah 11 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Zec 11:1

Zec 11:1Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

Zec 11:2

Zec 11:2Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

Zec 11:3

Zec 11:3The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

Zec 11:4

Zec 11:4This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

Zec 11:5

Zec 11:5Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

Zec 11:6

Zec 11:6For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

Zec 11:7

Zec 11:7So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.

Zec 11:8

Zec 11:8And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

Zec 11:9

Zec 11:9And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

Zec 11:10

Zec 11:10And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

Zec 11:11

Zec 11:11And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

Zec 11:12

Zec 11:12And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.

Zec 11:13

Zec 11:13And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.

Zec 11:14

Zec 11:14Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

Zec 11:15

Zec 11:15And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

Zec 11:16

Zec 11:16For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

Zec 11:17

Zec 11:17A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
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