Zec 11 | NASB2020 | STEP | Open your doors , Lebanon , So that a fire may feed on your cedars .

Zechariah 11

The Doomed Flock

1 Open your doors, Lebanon,

So that a ^afire may feed on your ^bcedars.
2 Wail, juniper, because the cedar has fallen,
For the magnificent trees have been destroyed;
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
Because the ^{▼▼Another reading is forest of the vintage}impenetrable forest has come down.
3 There is a sound of the shepherds’ ^dwail,
For their splendor is ruined;
There is a ^esound of the young lions’ roar,
For the ^{▼▼Or thicket}pride of the Jordan is ruined.
4 This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to ^gslaughter. 5 Those who buy them slaughter them and ^{▼▼Lit are not held guilty}go ⁱunpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for ^jI have become rich!’ And their ^kown shepherds have no compassion for them. 6 For I will ^lno longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will ^mlet the people fall, each into another’s ^{▼▼Lit hand}power and into the ^{▼▼Lit hand}power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will ^pnot rescue them from their ^{▼▼Lit hand}power.”

7 So I ^rpastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ^{▼▼Another reading is for the sheep dealers}therefore also the ^tafflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^ustaffs: the one I called ^{▼▼Or Pleasantness
,} ^wFavor, and the other I called ^xUnion; so I pastured the flock. 8 Then I did away with the three shepherds in ^yone month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^{▼▼Or detested}was tired of me. 9 Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^aadie, ^{▼▼Or will die}let it die, and what is to perish, ^{▼▼Or will perish}let it perish; and ^{▼▼Or those...will eat}let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” 10 And I took my staff ^{▼▼Or Pleasantness
,} ^afFavor and cut it in pieces, to ^{▼▼Or annul
,} ^ahbreak 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}so the ^akafflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. 12 And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^alwages; but if not, ^{▼▼Lit cease}never mind!” So they weighed out ^anthirty shekels of silver as my wages. 13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^aopotter, 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 ^apUnion, to ^aqbreak the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 And the Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a ^arfoolish shepherd. 16 For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will ^asnot care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will ^atdevour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

17 “ ^auWoe to the worthless shepherd
Who abandons the flock!
A ^avsword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His ^awarm will be totally withered,
And his right eye will be ^{▼▼Lit completely dimmed}blind.”