Zechariah11
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(Zec 11:1) Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
(Zec 11:2) Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
(Zec 11:3) {There is} a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
(Zec 11:4) Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
(Zec 11:5) Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
(Zec 11:6) For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver {them}.
(Zec 11:7) And I will feed the flock of slaughter, {even} you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
(Zec 11:8) Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
(Zec 11:9) Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
(Zec 11:10) And I took my staff, {even} Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
(Zec 11:11) And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it {was} the word of the Lord.
(Zec 11:12) And I said unto them, If ye think good, give {me} my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty {pieces} of silver.
(Zec 11:13) And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty {pieces} of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
(Zec 11:14) Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
(Zec 11:15) And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
(Zec 11:16) For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, {which} shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
(Zec 11:17) Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword {shall be} upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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