New American Standard Bible 1995

Zechariah 11:4-7

4Thus says the Lord my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to 1slaughter. 5Those who buy them slay them and 2go 3unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for 4I have become rich!’ And their 5own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For I will 6no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will 7cause the men to 8fall, each into another’s 9power and into the 10power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will 11not deliver them from their 12power.”

7So I 13pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, 14hence the 15afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two 16staffs: the one I called 17 18Favor and the other I called 19 20Union; so I pastured the flock.

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Notes

1. Zechariah 11:4 Ps 44:22; Zech 11:7 ↩
2. Zechariah 11:5 Lit are not held guilty ↩
3. Zechariah 11:5 Jer 50:7 ↩
4. Zechariah 11:5 Hos 12:8; 1 Tim 6:9 ↩
5. Zechariah 11:5 Ezek 34:2, 3 ↩
6. Zechariah 11:6 Jer 13:14 ↩
7. Zechariah 11:6 Is 9:19-21; Mic 7:2-6; Zech 14:13 ↩
8. Zechariah 11:6 Lit find ↩
9. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand ↩
10. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand ↩
11. Zechariah 11:6 Ps 50:22; Mic 5:8 ↩
12. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand ↩
13. Zechariah 11:7 Zech 11:4 ↩
14. Zechariah 11:7 Another reading is for the sheep dealers ↩
15. Zechariah 11:7 Jer 39:10; Zeph 3:12 ↩
16. Zechariah 11:7 Ezek 37:16 ↩
17. Zechariah 11:7 Or Pleasantness ↩
18. Zechariah 11:7 Ps 27:4; 90:17; Zech 11:10 ↩
19. Zechariah 11:7 Or Cords ↩
20. Zechariah 11:7 Ps 133:1; Ezek 37:16-23; Zech 11:14 ↩

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