New American Standard Bible 2020

Zechariah 11:4-7

4This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to 1slaughter. 5Those who buy them slaughter 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 compassion for them. 6For I will 6no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will 7let the people fall, each into another’s 8power and into the 9power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will 10not rescue them from their 11power.”

7So I 12pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, 13therefore also the 14afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two 15staffs: the one I called 16 17Favor, and the other I called 18Union; 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 hand ↩
9. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand ↩
10. Zechariah 11:6 Ps 50:22; Mic 5:8 ↩
11. Zechariah 11:6 Lit hand ↩
12. Zechariah 11:7 Zech 11:4 ↩
13. Zechariah 11:7 Another reading is for the sheep dealers ↩
14. Zechariah 11:7 Jer 39:10; Zeph 3:12 ↩
15. Zechariah 11:7 Ezek 37:16 ↩
16. Zechariah 11:7 Or Pleasantness ↩
17. Zechariah 11:7 Ps 27:4; 90:17; Zech 11:10 ↩
18. Zechariah 11:7 Ps 133:1; Ezek 37:16-23; Zech 11:14 ↩

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