NITHYAM SONGSZechariah 11
World English Bible (WEB) • 17 verses
1Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
RelatedJeremiah 22:23 · Jeremiah 22:6-7 · Luke 21:23-24 · Habakkuk 2:17 · Zechariah 10:10 · Luke 19:41-44
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.
RelatedLuke 23:31 · Isaiah 2:12-17 · Ezekiel 20:46 · Nahum 3:8-19 · Isaiah 32:15-19 · Isaiah 10:33-34
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.
RelatedJeremiah 50:44 · Jeremiah 25:34-36 · Jeremiah 2:15 · Zephaniah 1:10 · 1 Samuel 4:21-22 · Jeremiah 7:4
4The LORD my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
RelatedZechariah 11:7 · Matthew 23:37 · Romans 15:8 · Isaiah 40:9-11 · Isaiah 49:4-5 · Ephesians 1:3
5Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD; “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.”
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.
RelatedZechariah 11:4 · Zechariah 11:14 · Isaiah 11:4 · Ezekiel 37:16-23 · Zechariah 11:10-11 · Zephaniah 3:12
8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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.”
RelatedMatthew 13:10-11 · Jeremiah 43:11 · Revelation 22:11 · Isaiah 9:19-21 · Matthew 21:19 · Deuteronomy 28:53-56
10I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
RelatedZechariah 11:7 · Psalms 89:39 · Jeremiah 14:21 · Hebrews 8:8-13 · Jeremiah 31:31-32 · Psalms 90:17
11It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the LORD’s word.
RelatedLamentations 3:25-26 · James 2:5-6 · Zephaniah 3:12 · Isaiah 40:31 · Psalms 72:12-14 · Isaiah 26:8-9
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.
13The LORD 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 the LORD’s house.
14Then I cut apart my other staff, Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15The LORD said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
RelatedIsaiah 6:10-12 · Jeremiah 2:26-27 · Lamentations 2:14 · Ezekiel 13:3 · Matthew 15:14 · Luke 11:40
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.
RelatedEzekiel 34:2-6 · John 10:1 · John 10:12-13 · Jeremiah 23:2 · Matthew 23:13-29 · Luke 12:45-46
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!”
RelatedJeremiah 23:1 · Ezekiel 13:3 · 1 Corinthians 8:4 · Ezekiel 34:2 · Isaiah 42:19-20 · Matthew 23:16
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.