OTNT

Zech 11


11:1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!

11:2 Wail, O pine tree, for the cedar has fallen; the stately trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan; the dense forest has been cut down!

11:3 Listen to the wail of the shepherds; their rich pastures are destroyed! Listen to the roar of the lions; the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

11:4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter.

11:5 Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the LORD, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.

11:6 For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the LORD. “I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will oppress the land, and I will not rescue them from their hands.”

11:7 So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

11:8 In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them

11:9 and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

11:10 Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

11:11 It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew it was the word of the LORD.

11:12 I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

11:13 And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”–the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.

11:14 Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

11:15 Then the LORD said to me, “Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

11:16 For I am going to raise up a shepherd over the land who will not care for the lost, or seek the young, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the choice sheep, tearing off their hoofs.

11:17 “Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!” An Oracle

11:1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, / That the fire may devour your cedars.

11:2 Howl, O fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, / Because the majestic trees are devastated. / Howl, O oaks of Bashan, / For the impenetrable forest is brought down.

11:3 The sound of the howling of shepherds! / For their majesty is devastated. / The sound of the roaring of young lions! / For the pride of Jordan is devastated.

11:4 Thus says Jehovah my God, Shepherd the flock of slaughter,

11:5 Whose owners slaughter them and are not punished; and they who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds do not spare them.

11:6 For I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land, declares Jehovah; but I am about to cause each man to fall into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.

11:7 So I shepherded the flock of slaughter, and thereby the afflicted of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs; one I called Favor, and the other I called Bonds; and I shepherded the flock.

11:8 Then I destroyed the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also detested me.

11:9 Then I said, I will not shepherd you. What is to die will die, and what is to be destroyed will be destroyed, and those who are left will each eat one another’s flesh.

11:10 And I took my staff, Favor, and I broke it in pieces so as to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

11:11 And it was broken in that day; and thus the afflicted of the flock, who watched me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

11:12 And I said to them, If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, do not bother. So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

11:13 And Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price that I am priced with by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter, into the house of Jehovah.

11:14 Then I broke my second staff, Bonds, in pieces, so as to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

11:15 And Jehovah said to me, Again, take the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

11:16 For I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not visit those who are perishing, nor seek the scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor sustain what stands, but will devour the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hooves.

11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd, / Who abandons the flock! / The sword will fall on his arm / And on his right eye. / His arm will be utterly withered, / And his right eye will be totally darkened.