زَكَريَّا 11

١ 1 اِفْتَحْ أَبْوَابَكَ يَا لُبْنَانُ، فَتَأْكُلَ ٱلنَّارُ أَرْزَكَ.

Open, O Lebanon, your doors, And fire devours among your cedars.

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

Howl, O fir, for the cedar has fallen, For their majestic ones were destroyed, Howl, you oaks of Bashan, For the enclosed forest has come down,

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

A voice of the howling of the shepherds! For their robe of honor was destroyed, A voice of the roaring of young lions! For the excellence of Jordan was destroyed.

٤ 4 هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهِي: «ٱرْعَ غَنَمَ ٱلذَّبْحِ

Thus said my God YHWH: “Feed the flock of the slaughter,

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

Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed [is] YHWH, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

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 no longer have pity on inhabitants of the land, A declaration of YHWH, And behold, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbor, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.”

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

And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, you afflicted of the flock; and I take two staffs to myself; I have called one Pleasantness, and I have called the other Bands, and I feed the flock.

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

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul has abhorred me.

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

And I say, “I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbor.”

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

And I take my staff Pleasantness, and cut it apart, to make void my covenant that I had made with all the peoples:

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

and it is broken in that day, and the afflicted of the flock who are observing me know well, that it [is] a word of YHWH.

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

And I say to them: “If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, refrain”; and they weigh out my hire—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 YHWH says to me, “Cast it to the potter”; the good price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them [into] the house of YHWH, to the potter.

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

And I cut apart my second staff, Bands, To break the unity between Judah and Israel.

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

And YHWH says to me, “Again take to yourself the instrument 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 behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he does not inspect, The shaken off he does not seek, And the broken he does not heal, The standing he does not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he eats, And their hooves he breaks off.

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

Woe [to] the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword [is] on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!”