Zec 11 | NASB1995 | STEP | Open your doors , O Lebanon , That a fire may feed on your cedars .

Zechariah 11

The Doomed Flock

1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a ^afire may feed on your ^bcedars.
2 Wail, O ^{▼▼ Or juniper}cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the glorious trees have been destroyed;
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the ^{▼▼ Another reading is forest of the vintage}impenetrable forest has come down.
3 There is a sound of the shepherds’ ^ewail,
For their glory is ruined;
There is a ^fsound of the young lions’ roar,
For the ^{▼▼ Or jungle}pride of the Jordan is ruined.

4 Thus says the Lord my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to ^hslaughter. 5 “Those who buy them slay them and ^{▼▼ Lit are not held guilty}go ^junpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for ^kI have become rich!’ And their ^lown shepherds have no pity on them. 6 “For I will ^mno longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will ⁿcause the men to ^{▼▼ Lit find}fall, each into another’s ^{▼▼ Lit hand}power and into the ^{▼▼ Lit hand}power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will ^rnot deliver them from their ^{▼▼ Lit hand}power.”

7 So I ^tpastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ^{▼▼ Another reading is for the sheep dealers}hence the ^vafflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^wstaffs: the one I called ^{▼▼ Or Pleasantness
,} ^yFavor and the other I called ^{▼▼ Or Cords
,} ^aaUnion; so I pastured the flock. 8 Then I annihilated the three shepherds in ^abone month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^{▼▼ Or detested}was weary of me. 9 Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^addie, ^{▼▼ Or will die}let it die, and what is to be annihilated, ^{▼▼ Or will be annihilated}let it be annihilated; and ^{▼▼ Or those...will eat}let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” 10 I took my staff ^{▼▼ Or Pleasantness
,} ^aiFavor and cut it in pieces, to ^{▼▼ Or annul
,} ^akbreak my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was ^{▼▼ Or annulled}broken on that day, and ^{▼▼ Another reading is the sheep dealers who}thus the ^anafflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. 12 I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^aowages; but if not, ^{▼▼ Lit cease}never mind!” So they weighed out ^aqthirty shekels of silver as my wages. 13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^arpotter, 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. 14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff ^{▼▼ Or Cords
,} ^atUnion, to ^aubreak the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 The Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a ^{▼▼ Or useless
,} ^awfoolish shepherd. 16 “For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will ^axnot care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will ^aydevour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs. 17 ^az“Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A ^basword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His ^bbarm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be ^{▼▼ Lit completely dimmed}blind.”