Zechariah 11

1Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Jer 22:6 · Jer 22:23 · Ezek 31:3 · Hab 2:8 · Hab 2:17 · +6 more

2Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.Cross-references: Isa 2:12 · Isa 10:33 · Isa 32:15 · Ezek 20:46 · Ezek 31:2 · Ezek 31:17 · +3 more

3A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed—a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:21 · Ps 22:21 · Isa 65:15 · Jer 2:15 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 7:4 · +25 more

4Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.Cross-references: Isa 40:9 · Isa 49:4 · Ezek 34:23 · Mic 5:4 · Zech 11:7 · Zech 14:5 · +7 more

5Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.Cross-references: Gen 37:26 · Deut 29:19 · 2Ki 4:1 · Neh 5:8 · Jer 2:3 · Jer 23:1 · +18 more

6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”Cross-references: Ps 50:22 · Isa 3:5 · Isa 9:19 · Isa 27:11 · Jer 13:14 · Ezek 8:18 · +29 more

7So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.Cross-references: Lev 27:32 · 1Sam 17:40 · 1Sam 17:43 · Ps 23:4 · Ps 133:1 · Isa 11:4 · +14 more

8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.Cross-references: Lev 26:11 · Lev 26:30 · Lev 26:44 · Deut 32:19 · Ps 5:5 · Ps 78:9 · +14 more

9Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”Cross-references: Deut 28:53 · Ps 69:22 · Isa 9:19 · Jer 15:2 · Jer 19:9 · Jer 23:33 · +14 more

10I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.Cross-references: Num 14:34 · 1Sam 2:30 · Ps 50:2 · Ps 89:39 · Ps 90:17 · Jer 14:21 · +14 more

11It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.Cross-references: Lev 26:38 · Deut 28:49 · Deut 31:21 · Deut 31:29 · Deut 32:21 · Ps 69:33 · +19 more

12I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.Cross-references: Gen 37:28 · Ex 21:32 · 1Ki 21:2 · 2Chr 30:4 · Matt 26:15 · Mark 14:10 · +3 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

13Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter—the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Isa 53:2 · Isa 54:7 · Matt 27:3 · Matt 27:12 · Acts 1:18 · Acts 4:11Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

14Then I cut apart my other staff, Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.Cross-references: Isa 9:21 · Isa 11:13 · Ezek 37:16 · Zech 11:7 · Zech 11:9 · Matt 24:10 · +5 more

15Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.Cross-references: Isa 6:10 · Jer 2:26 · Lam 2:14 · Ezek 13:3 · Matt 15:14 · Matt 23:17 · +1 more

16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.Cross-references: Gen 31:38 · Gen 33:13 · 1Sam 17:34 · Isa 40:11 · Jer 23:2 · Jer 23:22 · +9 more

17Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”Cross-references: 1Sam 2:31 · 1Ki 13:4 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 9:15 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 42:19 · +20 more