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Zacarías 11,1-17
Chapter XI.
1 The destruction of Ierusalem. 3 The elect being cared for, the rest are reiected. 10 The staues of beauty and bands broken by the reiection of Christ. 15 The Type and curse of a foolish Shepheard.
1 Open thy doores, O Lebanon, that the fire may deuoure thy cedars.
2 Howle firre tree, for the cedar is fallen; because all the [ Or, gallants.] mighty are spoiled; howle O yee okes of Bashan, for the [ Or, the defenced forrest.] forrest of the vintage is come downe.
3 There is a voyce of the howling of the shepheards; for their glory is spoiled: a voyce of the roaring of young lyons; for the pride of Iordan is spoiled.
4 Thus saith the Lord my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessours slay them, and hold themselues not guiltie: and they that sell the say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their owne shepheards pitie them not.
6 For I will no more pitie the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but loe, I will [ Hebrew: make to be found.] deliuer the men euery one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliuer them.
7 And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, euen you, O [ Or, verily the poore.] poore of the flock: and I tooke vnto me two staues; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called [ Or, binders.] Bandes, and I fed the flocke.
[Two staues.]
8 Three shepheards also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule [ Hebrew: was straitened for them.] loathed them, and their soule also abhorred mee.
9 Then said I, I [ Jer_15:2 .] will not feede you: that that dieth, let it die: and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest eate, euery one the flesh of [ Hebrew: of his fellow or neighbour.] another.
10 And I tooke my staffe, euen Beautie, and cut it asunder, that I might breake my couenant which I had made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and so [ Or, the poore of the flocke, etc. certainly knewe.] the poore of the flocke that waited vpon me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.
12 And I said vnto them, [ Hebrew: if it be good in your eyes.] If yee thinke good, giue me my price: and if not, forbeare: so they [ Mat_26:15 .] weighed for my price thirtie pieces of siluer.
13 And the Lord said vnto mee, Cast it vnto the [ Mat_27:9 .] potter: a goodly price, that I was prised at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staffe, euen [ Or, binders.] Bands, that I might break the brotherhood betweene Iudah and Israel.
15 And the Lord said vnto me, Take vnto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepheard.
16 For loe, I wil raise vp a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that bee [ Or, hidden.] cut off, neither shall seeke the yong one, nor heale that that is broken, nor [ Or, beare.] feed that that standeth still: but he shal eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces.
17 [ Jer_23:1 ; Eze_34:2 ; Joh_10:12 .] Woe to the idoll shepheard that leaueth the flocke: the sword shall be vpon his arme, and vpon his right eye: his arme shall be cleane dryed vp, and his right eye shall be vtterly darkened.