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Zechariah 11 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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The Doomed Flock

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Open your doors, O Lebanon,

That fire may devour your cedars.

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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,

Because the magnificent trees have been destroyed;

Wail, O oaks of Bashan,

For the inaccessible forest [on the steep mountainside] has come down.

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There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,

For their splendor (grazing land) is ruined;

There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,

For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

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Thus says the LORD my God, “Pasture the flock doomed for slaughter,

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:5 - whose buyers slay them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them nor protect them [from the wolves].

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - “For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into the hand of another and into the hands of his [foreign] king. And the enemy will strike the land, and I will not rescue the people from their hand.”

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So I [Zechariah] pastured the flock doomed for slaughter, truly [as the name implies] the most miserable of sheep. And I took two [shepherd’s] staffs, the one I called Favor (Grace) and the other I called Union (Bonds); so I pastured the flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:8 - Then I eliminated the three [incompetent, unfit] shepherds [the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets] in one month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9 - So I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let the survivors devour one another’s flesh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:10 - I took my staff, Favor, and broke it in pieces, breaking the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:11 - So the covenant was broken on that day, and thus the most wretched of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, do not.” So they weighed out [fn]thirty pieces of silver as my wages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - [fn]Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter [as if to the dogs]—that magnificent sum at which I am valued by them!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I broke my second staff, Union, into pieces to break the brotherhood between Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and Israel (the Northern Kingdom).

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The LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment [of a shepherd, but this time] of a foolish shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - “For behold, I am going to raise up a [false] shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or feed the healthy; but will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs [to consume everything].

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“Woe (judgment is coming) to the worthless and foolish shepherd

Who deserts the flock!

The sword will strike his arm

And his right eye!

His arm shall be totally withered

And his right eye completely blinded.”

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AMP Footnotes
Since the type of coin is not stated, shekels can be assumed. The shekel was the standard wage for a day of labor, and the payment was weighed because the shekel was actually a unit of weight.
At this point the pre-incarnate Christ intervenes and prophetically refers to the payment given by the religious leaders to Judas for his betrayal (Matt 26:15).
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