Zec 11 | ABEn | STEP | Open wide, O Lebanon, your doors, and let [ 2 devour 1 fire] your cedars!

Zechariah 11

CHAPTER 11 The Shepherds

1 Open wide, O Lebanon, your doors, and let [²devour ¹fire] your cedars! 2 Let [²shriek ¹the pine]! because [²has fallen ¹the cedar], for [²were in misery ¹great ones]. Shriek, O oaks of Bashan! for [⁴were torn down ³groves ¹the ²planted]. 3 A sound of wailing of shepherds, for [²languishes ¹their greatness]. A sound of roaring lions, for [⁵languishes ¹the ²neighing ³of the ⁴Jordan]. 4 Thus says the lord almighty, Tend the sheep of the slaughter, 5 which the ones acquiring butcher, and are repenting not. And the ones selling them said, Blessed be the lord, we were enriched. And their shepherds suffered not anything for them. 6 On account of this, I will not spare any longer over the ones inhabiting the land, says the lord. And behold, I deliver up the men, each into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they shall cut in pieces the land, and in no way should I rescue from out of their hand. 7 And I will tend the sheep of the slaughter in the land of the Canaanites. And I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called, A piece of measured out land; and I will tend the sheep. 8 And I will lift away the three shepherds in [²month ¹one]; and [²shall be weighed down ¹my soul] over them, for their souls roared against me. 9 And I said, I will not tend you. The dying, let it die! And the failing, let it fail! and the rest, let them [²eat ¹each] the flesh of his neighbor!

The Two Rods

10 And I will take my rod, Beauty, and I will throw it away to efface my covenant which I ordained with all the peoples. 11 And it shall be effaced in that day. And [³shall know ¹the ²Canaanites] the sheep being guarded for me, that [²the word ³of the lord ¹it is]. 12 And I will say to them, if [²good ³before ⁴you ¹it is], give my wage, or forbid it! And they established my wage -- thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the lord said to me, Lower them into the foundry furnace! and to look about if it is unadulterated! in which manner I was proved for them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I put them into the house of the lord, into the foundry furnace. 14 And I threw away my rod, the second, A Piece of Measured out Land -- to efface the taking possession the thing between Judah and between Israel. 15 And the lord said to me, Yet take to yourself the equipment of a shepherd -- [²shepherd ¹an inexperienced]! 16 For behold, I shall arouse a shepherd against the land, one who [³the one ⁴faltering ¹in no way ²shall visit]; and [³the one ⁴being dispersed ¹in no way ²shall he seek]; and [³the one ⁴being broken ¹in no way ²shall he heal]; and [³the ⁴whole ¹in no way ²shall he conduct]. And [³meats ¹of the ²choice] he shall devour, and [²their vertebrae ¹he shall distort]. 17 O the ones tending the vain things, and leaving behind the sheep; a sword shall be against his arm, and against [²eye ¹his right]. His arm withering shall be withered, and [²eye ¹his right] by blinding shall be blinded.