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title: Zechariah 11
slug: kjv/zechariah-11
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:58:11.455Z
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**1 **Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

**2 **Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

**3 ***There is* a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

**4 **Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; **5 **Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed *be* the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. **6 **For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver *them*.

**7 **And I will feed the flock of slaughter, *even* you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. **8 **Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. **9 **Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.

**10 **And I took my staff, *even* Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. **11 **And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it *was* the word of the LORD. **12 **And I said unto them, If ye think good, give *me* my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty *pieces* of silver. **13 **And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty *pieces* of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. **14 **Then I cut asunder mine other staff, *even* Bands, that I might break 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 will raise up a shepherd in the land, *which* shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

**17 **Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword *shall be* upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.