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Zechariah 11

The Doomed Flock

1

Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a  afire may feed on your  bcedars.

2

Wail, O  1cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the  2impenetrable forest has come down.

3

There is a sound of the shepherds'  awail, For their glory is ruined; There is a  bsound of the young lions' roar, For the  1pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to  aslaughter.

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"Those who buy them slay them and  1go  aunpunished, and each of those who sell them says, `Blessed be the LORD, for  bI have become rich!' And their  cown shepherds have no pity on them.

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"For I will  ano longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD; "but behold, I will  bcause the men to  1fall, each into another's  2power and into the  2power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will  cnot deliver them from their  2power."

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So I  apastured the flock doomed to slaughter,  1hence the  bafflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two  cstaffs: the one I called  2 dFavor and the other I called  3 eUnion; so I pastured the flock.

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Then I annihilated the three shepherds in  aone month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also  1was weary of me.

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Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What is to  adie,  1let it die, and what is to be annihilated,  2let it be annihilated; and  3let those who are left eat one another's flesh."

10

I took my staff  1 aFavor and cut it in pieces, to  2 bbreak my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

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So it was  1broken on that day, and  2thus the  aafflicted 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  awages; but if not,  1never mind!" So they weighed out  bthirty shekels of silver as my wages.

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Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the  apotter, 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.

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Then I cut in pieces my second staff  1 aUnion, to  bbreak the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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The LORD said to me, "Take again for yourself the equipment of a  1 afoolish shepherd.

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"For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will  anot care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will  bdevour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

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aWoe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the flock! A  bsword will be on his arm And on his right eye! His  carm will be totally withered And his right eye will be  1blind."



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