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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Will Care for Judah</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ask the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for rain in the springtime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.10.1"><span class="content">it is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who sends the thunderstorms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.10.1"><span class="content">He gives showers of rain to all people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.10.1"><span class="content">and plants of the field to everyone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The idols speak deceitfully,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="content">diviners see visions that lie;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="content">they tell dreams that are false,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="content">they give comfort in vain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="content">Therefore the people wander like sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="content">oppressed for lack of a shepherd.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;My anger burns against the shepherds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.10.3"><span class="content">and I will punish the leaders;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.10.3"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will care</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.10.3"><span class="content">for his flock, the people of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.10.3"><span class="content">and make them like a proud horse in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">From Judah will come the cornerstone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.10.4"><span class="content">from him the tent peg,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.10.4"><span class="content">from him the battle bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.10.4"><span class="content">from him every ruler.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Together they</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4,5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">ruler, all of them together. / </span><span class="fv">5 </span><span class="fqa">They</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be like warriors in battle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.10.5"><span class="content">trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.10.5"><span class="content">They will fight because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.10.5"><span class="content">and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will strengthen Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">and save the tribes of Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">I will restore them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">because I have compassion on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">They will be as though</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">I had not rejected them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">for I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">and I will answer them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Ephraimites will become like warriors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.10.7"><span class="content">and their hearts will be glad as with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.10.7"><span class="content">Their children will see it and be joyful;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.10.7"><span class="content">their hearts will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will signal for them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.10.8"><span class="content">and gather them in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.10.8"><span class="content">Surely I will redeem them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.10.8"><span class="content">they will be as numerous as before.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Though I scatter them among the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.10.9"><span class="content">yet in distant lands they will remember me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.10.9"><span class="content">They and their children will survive,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.10.9"><span class="content">and they will return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will bring them back from Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.10.10"><span class="content">and gather them from Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.10.10"><span class="content">I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.10.10"><span class="content">and there will not be room enough for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They will pass through the sea of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.10.11"><span class="content">the surging sea will be subdued</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.10.11"><span class="content">and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.10.11"><span class="content">Assyria&#8217;s pride will be brought down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.10.11"><span class="content">and Egypt&#8217;s scepter will pass away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will strengthen them in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.10.12"><span class="content">and in his name they will live securely,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.10.12"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span 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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Open your doors, Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.11.1"><span class="content">so that fire may devour your cedars!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Wail, you juniper, for the cedar has fallen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.11.2"><span class="content">the stately trees are ruined!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.11.2"><span class="content">Wail, oaks of Bashan;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.11.2"><span class="content">the dense forest has been cut down!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Listen to the wail of the shepherds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.11.3"><span class="content">their rich pastures are destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.11.3"><span class="content">Listen to the roar of the lions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.11.3"><span class="content">the lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Two Shepherds</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God says: &#8220;Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, &#8216;Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I am rich!&#8217; Their own shepherds do not spare them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.11.8"><span class="content">The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another&#8217;s flesh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It was revoked on that day, and so the oppressed of the flock who were watching me knew it was the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I told them, &#8220;If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.&#8221; So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Throw it to the potter&#8221;&#8212;the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the family bond between Judah and Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEC.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I am going to raise up a shepherd over the land who will not care for the lost, or seek the young, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the choice sheep, tearing off their hooves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEC.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to the worthless shepherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.11.17"><span class="content">who deserts the flock!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.11.17"><span class="content">May the sword strike his arm and his right eye!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.11.17"><span class="content">May his arm be completely withered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEC.11.17"><span class="content">his right eye totally blinded!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jerusalem&#8217;s Enemies to Be Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy: The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> concerning Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.12.1"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, &#8216;The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is their God.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem&#8217;s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">On that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> going before them. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Mourning for the One They Pierced</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> of grace and supplication. They will look on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to</span></span></span><span class="content"> me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and all the rest of the clans and their wives.</span></span></div>
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