Zechariah Chapter 11
11:1 | Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. |
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. |
11:3 | [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their ![]() |
11:4 | Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; |
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. |
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' hand, and into the hand of his ![]() |
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. |
11:8 | Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. |
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. |
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. |
11:11 | And it was broken in that ![]() |
11:12 | And I said unto them, If ye ![]() |
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 ![]() |
11:14 | Then I cut asunder mine other staff, [even] Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and ![]() |
11:15 | And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. |
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. |
11:17 | Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the ![]() |