Zechariah:11-12

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* Open thy doors , O Lebanon , that the fire may devour thy cedars . * Howl , fir tree ; for the cedar is fallen ; because the mighty are spoiled : howl , O ye oaks of Bashan ; for the forest of the vintage is come down . * There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds ; for their glory is spoiled : a voice of the roaring of young lions ; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled . * Thus saith the LORD my God ; Feed the flock of the slaughter ; * Whose possessors slay them , and hold themselves not guilty : and they that sell them say , Blessed be the LORD ; for I am rich : and their own shepherds pity them not . * For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land , saith the LORD : but , lo , I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour 's hand , and into the hand of his king : and they shall smite the land , and out of their hand I will not deliver them . * And I will feed the flock of slaughter , even you , O poor of the flock . And I took unto me two staves ; the one I called Beauty , and the other I called Bands ; and I fed the flock . * Three shepherds also I cut off in one month ; and my soul lothed them , and their soul also abhorred me . * Then said I , I will not feed you : that that dieth , let it die ; and that that is to be cut off , let it be cut off ; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another . * And I took my staff , even Beauty , and cut it asunder , that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people . * And it was broken in that day : and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD . * And I said unto them , If ye think good , give me my price ; and if not , forbear . So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver . * And the LORD said unto me , Cast it unto the potter : a goodly price that I was prised at of them . And I took the thirty pieces of silver , and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD . * Then I cut asunder mine other staff , even Bands , that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel . * And the LORD said unto me , Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd . * For , lo , I will raise up a shepherd in the land , which shall not visit those that be cut off , neither shall seek the young one , nor heal that that is broken , nor feed that that standeth still : but he shall eat the flesh of the fat , and tear their claws in pieces . * Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock ! the sword shall be upon his arm , and upon his right eye : his arm shall be clean dried up , and his right eye shall be utterly darkened . * The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel , saith the LORD , which stretcheth forth the heavens , and layeth the foundation of the earth , and formeth the spirit of man within him . * Behold , I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about , when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem . * And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people : all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces , though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it . * In that day , saith the LORD , I will smite every horse with astonishment , and his rider with madness : and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah , and will smite every horse of the people with blindness . * And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart , The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God . * In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood , and like a torch of fire in a sheaf ; and they shall devour all the people round about , on the right hand and on the left : and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place , even in Jerusalem . * The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first , that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah . * In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David ; and the house of David shall be as God , as the angel of the LORD before them . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem . * And I will pour upon the house of David , and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem , the spirit of grace and of supplications : and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced , and they shall mourn for him , as one mourneth for his only son , and shall be in bitterness for him , as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn . * In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem , as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon . * And the land shall mourn , every family apart ; the family of the house of David apart , and their wives apart ; the family of the house of Nathan apart , and their wives apart ; * The family of the house of Levi apart , and their wives apart ; the family of Shimei apart , and their wives apart ; * All the families that remain , every family apart , and their wives apart . * In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness .

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