noyes - Zechariah:10-11

noyes@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain! It is Jehovah that maketh the lightning; And he will give you abundant showers, To every one the herb of the field.

noyes@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the teraphim speak falsehood, And the diviners see a lie, And the dreams speak falsehood; Vain are their consolations. Therefore they wander as a flock; They are in distress, because there is no shepherd.

noyes@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And the bucks will I punish; For Jehovah of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, And make them as his goodly horse in battle.

noyes@Zechariah:10:4 @ From him shall come forth the cornerstone, From him the nail, From him the battlebow; From him shall every leader come forth.

noyes@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shall be as mighty men, Who tread down their enemies in battle as the mire of the streets, And they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them, So that the riders on horses shall be confounded.

noyes@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And give victory to the house of Joseph, And I will set them in their dwellings, because I have compassion upon them; And they shall be as though I had not cast them off; For I am Jehovah, their God, and I will hear them.

noyes@Zechariah:10:7 @ And Ephraim shall be as a mighty man, And their heart shall rejoice, as through wine; And their sons shall see it and rejoice, Their hearts shall rejoice in Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will whistle for them, and will gather them; for I have redeemed them; And they shall increase as they increased before.

noyes@Zechariah:10:9 @ Though I scatter them among the nations, Yet in far countries will they remember me; And they shall live with their children, and shall return.

noyes@Zechariah:10:10 @ And I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, And from Assyria will I gather them; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and of Lebanon, And there shall not be room enough for them.

noyes@Zechariah:10:11 @ And he shall pass through the sea of distress, And he shall smite the sea of waves, And all the depths of the river shall be dried up; And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, And the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

noyes@Zechariah:10:12 @ And I will strengthen them through Jehovah, And in his name shall they walk, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, That the fire may devour thy cedars!

noyes@Zechariah:11:2 @ Howl, O cypress, for the cedar falleth! For the lofty ones are destroyed! Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, For the high forest is come down!

noyes@Zechariah:11:3 @ Hark! the voice of the howling of the shepherds, Because their glory is destroyed! The voice of the roaring of young lions, Because the pride of Jordan is destroyed!

noyes@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus said Jehovah, my God: Feed thou the flock of slaughter,

noyes@Zechariah:11:5 @ Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty, And which they who sell say, "Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich!" And whose shepherds spare them not.

noyes@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no longer spare The inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; But, behold, I will deliver the men Every one into the hand of his neighbor, And into the hand of his king; And they shall smite the land, And I will not deliver out of their hand.

noyes@Zechariah:11:7 @ So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly a miserable flock. And I took to me two crooks; the one I called Favor, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

noyes@Zechariah:11:8 @ And I cut off three shepherds in one month; for I was weary of them, and they also abhorred me.

noyes@Zechariah:11:9 @ Then I said, I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat the flesh of one another.

noyes@Zechariah:11:10 @ And I took my staff Favor, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the nations.

noyes@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock, who had regard to me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

noyes@Zechariah:11:12 @ Then I said to them, If it seem good in your eyes, give me my wages; if not, keep them. And they weighed for my wages thirty shekels of silver.

noyes@Zechariah:11:13 @ And Jehovah said to me, Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver, and cast them into the house of Jehovah, into the treasury.

noyes@Zechariah:11:14 @ Then I broke my other crook, even Bands, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

noyes@Zechariah:11:15 @ And Jehovah said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

noyes@Zechariah:11:16 @ For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land Who shall not care for those that are perishing, Nor seek that which is gone astray, Nor heal that which is wounded, Nor support that which cannot go; But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, And consume it even to the hoofs.

noyes@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to the foolish shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword is upon his arm, and upon his right eye; His arm shall surely be withered, And his right eye shall surely be darkened!

noyes@Zechariah:12:1 @ The prophecy of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretched out the heavens, And laid the foundation of the earth, And formed the spirit of man within him: