Zechariah:11

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* Open your doors , Lebanon , that the fire may devour your cedars . * Wail , fir tree , for the cedar has fallen , because the stately ones are destroyed . Wail , you oaks of Bashan , for the strong forest has come down . * 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 . * Thus says Yahweh my God : "Feed the flock of slaughter . * Their buyers slaughter them , and go unpunished . Those who sell them say , 'Blessed be Yahweh , for I am rich ;' and their own shepherds don 't pity them . * For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land ," says Yahweh ; "but , behold , I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor 's hand , and into the hand of his king . They will strike the land , and out of their hand I will not deliver them ." * So I fed the flock of slaughter , especially the oppressed of the flock . I took for myself two staffs . The one I called "Favor ," and the other I called "Union ," and I fed the flock . * I cut off the three shepherds in one month ; for my soul was weary of them , and their soul also loathed me . * 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 each other 's flesh ." * I took my staff Favor , and cut it apart , that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples . * It was broken in that day ; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh . * 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 . * Yahweh 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 the potter , in the house of Yahweh . * Then I cut apart my other staff , even Union , that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel . * Yahweh said to me , "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd . * 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 which is broken , nor feed that which is sound ; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep , and will tear their hoofs in pieces . * Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock ! The sword will be on his arm , and on his right eye . His arm will be completely withered , and his right eye will be totally blinded !"

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