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The Doomed Flock |
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Zechariah 11:1
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Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may
feed on your cedars. |
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Zechariah 11:2
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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because
the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable
forest has come down. |
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Zechariah 11:3
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There is a sound of the shepherds' wail, For
their glory is ruined; There is a sound of the young lions' roar, For the pride
of the Jordan is ruined. |
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Zechariah 11:4
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Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock
doomed to slaughter. |
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Zechariah 11:5
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"Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished,
and each of those who sell them says, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I have become
rich!' And their own shepherds have no pity on them. |
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Zechariah 11:6
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"For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants
of the land," declares the LORD; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each
into another's power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the
land, and I will not deliver them from their power." |
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Zechariah 11:7
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So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter,
hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I
called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock. |
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Zechariah 11:8
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Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one
month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me. |
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Zechariah 11:9
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Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What is
to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and
let those who are left eat one another's flesh." |
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Zechariah 11:10
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I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces,
to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. |
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Zechariah 11:11
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So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted
of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD. |
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Zechariah 11:12
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I said to them, "If it is good in your sight,
give me my wages; but if not, never mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels
of silver as my wages. |
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Zechariah 11:13
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Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter,
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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Zechariah 11:14
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Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union,
to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
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Zechariah 11:15
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The LORD said to me, "Take again for yourself
the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
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Zechariah 11:16
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"For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd
in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the
broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep
and tear off their hoofs. |
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Zechariah 11:17
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"Woe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the
flock! A sword will be on his arm And on his right eye! His arm will be totally
withered And his right eye will be blind." |
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