Zechariah 11 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Doomed Flock

Zec 11:1Open your doors, O Lebanon,
That a fire may feed on your cedars.

Zec 11:2Wail, O [fn]cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the glorious trees have been destroyed;
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the [fn]impenetrable forest has come down.

Zec 11:3

Zec 11:3There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,
For their glory is ruined;
There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the [fn]pride of the Jordan is ruined.

Zec 11:4

Zec 11:4Thus says the LORD my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.

Zec 11:5

Zec 11:5“Those who buy them slay 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 pity on them.

Zec 11:6

Zec 11:6“For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will cause the men to [fn]fall, each into another’s [fn]power and into the [fn]power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their [fn]power.”

Zec 11:7

Zec 11:7So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, [fn]hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [fn]Favor and the other I called [fn]Union; so I pastured the flock.

Zec 11:8

Zec 11:8Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also [fn]was weary of me.

Zec 11:9

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

Zec 11:10

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

Zec 11:11

Zec 11:11So it was [fn]broken on that day, and [fn]thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.

Zec 11:12

Zec 11:12I 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.

Zec 11:13

Zec 11:13Then 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.

Zec 11:14

Zec 11:14Then I cut in pieces my second staff [fn]Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Zec 11:15

Zec 11:15The LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a [fn]foolish shepherd.

Zec 11:16

Zec 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 sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

Zec 11:17

Zec 11:17“Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves 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.”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(11:2)

Or, juniper

(11:2)

Another reading is forest of the vintage

(11:3)

Or, jungle

(11:5)

Literally: are not held guilty

(11:6)

Literally: find

(11:6)

Literally: hand

(11:7)

Another reading is for the sheep dealers

Or, Pleasantness

Or, Cords

Or, detested

Or, will die

Or, will be annihilated

(11:9)

Or, those...will eat

Or, Pleasantness

Or, annul

Or, annulled

Another reading is the sheep dealers who

Literally: cease

Or, Cords

Or, useless

Literally: completely dimmed

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