KJ3 Literal Translation
Zechariah 11
The destruction of Jerusalem. The elect being cared for, the rest are rejected.
1Open your doors, O Lebanon, and the fire will devour your cedars.
2Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the inaccessible forest has come down.
3A voice of the wailing of those shepherding is heard, for their splendor is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions is heard, for the pride of Jordan is destroyed.
4For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.
5Those who buy them kill them and are not held guilty. And the one selling them says, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich. And their shepherds do not pity them.
6For I will not again pity those living in the land, a statement of Jehovah. But, behold! I will cause to be found the men, each man into his neighbor's hand, and into his king's hand. And they shall crush the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.
7And I fed the flock of slaughter, the true humble one of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.
8And I cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul was straightened with them, and their soul also abhorred Me.
9And I said, I will not feed you; that which dies, let it die; and what is to be cut off, let it be cut off. And let the remnant, let each woman, eat the flesh of her neighbor.
10And I took My staff Kindness and cut it it in two, to break My covenant which I had cut with all the peoples.
11And it was broken in that day, and so the humble one of the flock watching Me knew that it was the Word of Jehovah.
12And I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give My price; and if not, let it go. And they weighed My price, thirty pieces of silver.
13And Jehovah said to Me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it to the potter in the house of Jehovah.
14Then I cut in two My second staff Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15And Jehovah said to me, Again take to yourself the vessels of a foolish shepherd.
16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land; he shall not care for those who are cut off; not will he seek the young; not will he heal that which is broken; not will he sustain that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear off their hoofs.
17Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword shall be against his arm and against his right eye. Withering His arm shall be withered, and darkening his right eye shall be darkened.
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