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Read Zechariah 11

World English Bible · 17 verses

¹ Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed—a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter—the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in Yahweh’s house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ Then I cut apart my other staff, Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org