Zechariah Chapter 11

• Zechariah 11:1
  Zechariah.
• Zechariah 11:2
  Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
• Zechariah 11:3
  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.
• Zechariah 11:4
  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.
• Zechariah 11:5
  The LORD my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
• Zechariah 11:6
  Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
• Zechariah 11:7
  For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD; “but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbor’s hand and in...
• Zechariah 11:8
  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 ca...
• Zechariah 11:9
  I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Zechariah 11:10
  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 eac...
• Zechariah 11:11
  I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
• Zechariah 11:12
  It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the LORD’s word.
• Zechariah 11:13
  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.
• Zechariah 11:14
  The LORD 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 th...
• Zechariah 11:15
  Then I cut apart my other staff, Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
• Zechariah 11:16
  The LORD said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
• Zechariah 11:17
  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...
• Zechariah 11:18
  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 righ...