Zechariah 11
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Zechariah 11
1 #
Jer 22.6, 7; Ezek 31.3 Open your doors, O Lebanon,
so that fire may devour your cedars!
2 #
Isa 32.19
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!
3 #
Jer 25.34–36; 50.44 Listen, the wail of the shepherds,
for their glory is despoiled!
Listen, the roar of the lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!
Two Kinds of Shepherds
4 #
v 7
“Thus says the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5#Jer 50.7; Hos 12.8Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6#Jer 13.14; Mic 5.8; Zech 14.13For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbor and each into the hand of the king, and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.”
7 #
vv 10, 14
; Ezek 37.16; Zeph 3.12So on behalf of the sheep merchants,#11.7 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. 8#Hos 5.7In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another!” 10#v 7; Jer 14.21I took my staff Favor and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11#Zeph 3.12So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep merchants#11.11 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12#Gen 37.28; Ex 21.32; 1 Kings 5.6; Mt 26.15I then said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages, but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver. 13#Mt 27.9Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it into the treasury”#11.13 Syr: Heb it to the potter—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury#11.13 Syr: Heb it to the potter in the house of the Lord. 14Then I broke my second staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel.
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Ezek 34.2–4
Then the Lord said to me: “Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. 16For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering,#11.16 Syr Compare Gk Vg: Heb the youth or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy,#11.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
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Jer 23.1; Ezek 30.21, 22; Mic 3.6, 7; Jn 10.12 Oh, my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!”
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