زَكَريَّا 11

١ 1 اِفْتَحْ أَبْوَابَكَ يَا لُبْنَانُ، فَتَأْكُلَ ٱلنَّارُ أَرْزَكَ.

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

٢ 2 وَلْوِلْ يَا سَرْوُ، لِأَنَّ ٱلْأَرْزَ سَقَطَ، لِأَنَّ ٱلْأَعِزَّاءَ قَدْ خَرِبُوا. وَلْوِلْ يَا بَلُّوطَ بَاشَانَ، لِأَنَّ ٱلْوَعْرَ ٱلْمَنِيعَ قَدْ هَبَطَ.

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

٣ 3 صَوْتُ وَلْوَلَةِ ٱلرُّعَاةِ، لِأَنَّ فَخْرَهُمْ خَرِبَ. صَوْتُ زَمْجَرَةِ ٱلْأَشْبَالِ، لِأَنَّ كِبْرِيَاءَ ٱلْأُرْدُنِّ خَرِبَتْ.

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.

٤ 4 هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهِي: «ٱرْعَ غَنَمَ ٱلذَّبْحِ

Thus says the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

٥ 5 ٱلَّذِينَ يَذْبَحُهُمْ مَالِكُوهُمْ وَلَا يَأْثَمُونَ، وَبَائِعُوهُمْ يَقُولُونَ: مُبَارَكٌ ٱلرَّبُّ! قَدِ ٱسْتَغْنَيْتُ. وَرُعَاتُهُمْ لَا يُشْفِقُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ.

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.

٦ 6 لِأَنِّي لَا أُشْفِقُ بَعْدُ عَلَى سُكَّانِ ٱلْأَرْضِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، بَلْ هَأَنَذَا مُسَلِّمٌ ٱلْإِنْسَانَ، كُلَّ رَجُلٍ لِيَدِ قَرِيبِهِ وَلِيَدِ مَلِكِهِ، فَيَضْرِبُونَ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَا أُنْقِذُ مِنْ يَدِهِمْ».

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD: but, see, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’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.

٧ 7 فَرَعَيْتُ غَنَمَ ٱلذَّبْحِ. لَكِنَّهُمْ أَذَلُّ ٱلْغَنَمِ. وَأَخَذْتُ لِنَفْسِي عَصَوَيْنِ، فَسَمَّيْتُ ٱلْوَاحِدَةَ «نِعْمَةَ» وَسَمَّيْتُ ٱلْأُخْرَى «حِبَالًا» وَرَعَيْتُ ٱلْغَنَمَ.

And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

٨ 8 وَأَبَدْتُ ٱلرُّعَاةَ ٱلثَّلَاثَةَ فِي شَهْرٍ وَاحِدٍ، وَضَاقَتْ نَفْسِي بِهِمْ، وَكَرِهَتْنِي أَيْضًا نَفْسُهُمْ.

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

٩ 9 فَقُلْتُ: «لَا أَرْعَاكُمْ. مَنْ يَمُتْ فَلْيَمُتْ، وَمَنْ يُبَدْ فَلْيُبَدْ. وَٱلْبَقِيَّةُ فَلْيَأْكُلْ بَعْضُهَا لَحْمَ بَعْضٍ!».

Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, 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.

١٠ 10 فَأَخَذْتُ عَصَايَ «نِعْمَةَ» وَقَصَفْتُهَا لِأَنْقُضَ عَهْدِي ٱلَّذِي قَطَعْتُهُ مَعَ كُلِّ ٱلْأَسْبَاطِ.

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.

١١ 11 فَنُقِضَ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ. وَهَكَذَا عَلِمَ أَذَلُّ ٱلْغَنَمِ ٱلْمُنْتَظِرُونَ لِي أَنَّهَا كَلِمَةُ ٱلرَّبِّ.

And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited on me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

١٢ 12 فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: «إِنْ حَسُنَ فِي أَعْيُنِكُمْ فَأَعْطُونِي أُجْرَتِي وَإِلَّا فَٱمْتَنِعُوا». فَوَزَنُوا أُجْرَتِي ثَلَاثِينَ مِنَ ٱلْفِضَّةِ.

And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

١٣ 13 فَقَالَ لِي ٱلرَّبُّ: «أَلْقِهَا إِلَى ٱلْفَخَّارِيِّ، ٱلثَّمَنَ ٱلْكَرِيمَ ٱلَّذِي ثَمَّنُونِي بِهِ». فَأَخَذْتُ ٱلثَّلَاثِينَ مِنَ ٱلْفِضَّةِ وَأَلْقَيْتُهَا إِلَى ٱلْفَخَّارِيِّ فِي بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was priced at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

١٤ 14 ثُمَّ قَصَفْتُ عَصَايَ ٱلْأُخْرَى «حِبَالًا» لِأَنْقُضَ ٱلْإِخَاءَ بَيْنَ يَهُوذَا وَإِسْرَائِيلَ.

Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

١٥ 15 فَقَالَ لِي ٱلرَّبُّ: «خُذْ لِنَفْسِكَ بَعْدُ أَدَوَاتِ رَاعٍ أَحْمَقَ،

And the LORD said to me, Take to you yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

١٦ 16 لِأَنِّي هَأَنَذَا مُقِيمٌ رَاعِيًا فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ لَا يَفْتَقِدُ ٱلْمُنْقَطِعِينَ، وَلَا يَطْلُبُ ٱلْمُنْسَاقَ، وَلَا يَجْبُرُ ٱلْمُنْكَسِرَ، وَلَا يُرَبِّي ٱلْقَائِمَ. وَلَكِنْ يَأْكُلُ لَحْمَ ٱلسِّمَانِ وَيَنْزِعُ أَظْلَافَهَا».

For, see, 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 stands still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

١٧ 17 وَيْلٌ لِلرَّاعِي ٱلْبَاطِلِ ٱلتَّارِكِ ٱلْغَنَمِ! اَلسَّيْفُ عَلَى ذِرَاعِهِ وَعَلَى عَيْنِهِ ٱلْيُمْنَى. ذِرَاعُهُ تَيْبَسُ يَبْسًا، وَعَيْنُهُ ٱلْيُمْنَى تَكِلُّ كُلُولًا!

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