Zechariah 11

Leeser^{(i) 1} Open thy doors, O Lebanon, and the fire shall eat on thy cedars. ² Wail, fir-tree; for fallen is the cedar; those that were mighty are despoiled: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the impervious forest is come down. ³ There is the noise of the wailing of the shepherds; for wasted is their glory: there is the noise of the roaring of young lions; for wasted is the pride of the Jordan. ⁴ Thus hath said the Lord my God, Feed the flocks that are destined for the slaughter; ⁵ Whom their buyers slay, and hold themselves guiltless; and whose sellers say, Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich: and none of whose shepherds have pity on them. ⁶ For I will no more have pity on the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king: and they shall beat down the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand. ⁷ And I had fed the flocks that were destined for the slaughter,—indeed, the poorest of the flocks; and I had taken unto me two staves; the one I called Mildness [No’am], and the other I called Concord [Choblim]: and I fed the flocks. ⁸ And I removed the three shepherds in one month; and my soul was tired of them, and also their soul abhorred me. ⁹ Then said I, I will not feed you: what is dying may die; and what is to be lost may be lost; and those that are left may eat every one the flesh of the other. ¹⁰ And I took my staff, namely, Mildness, and cut it to pieces, to annul my covenant which I had made with all the tribes. ¹¹ And when it was annulled on that day, then knew they well, truly the poorest of the flocks that waited for me, that it was the word of the Lord. ¹² And I said unto them, If it be good in your eyes, give me my reward; and if not, forbear. So they weighed out as my reward thirty pieces of silver. ¹³ And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the treasurer, the precious price which I am prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them in the house of the Lord unto the treasurer. ¹⁴ Then I cut in pieces my second staff, namely, Concord, to annul the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. ¹⁵ And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. ¹⁶ For, lo, I raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not think of those that are lost, nor seek for that which is gone astray, nor heal that which hath a limb broken; who will not care for that which hath stood still; but who will eat the flesh of the fat, and devour all even to their claws. ¹⁷ Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall utterly wither, and his right eye shall be completely blinded.