< Zechariah 11 >
1 to open Lebanon door your and to eat fire in/on/with cedar your
Open, O Lebanon, your doors, And fire devours among your cedars.
2 to wail cypress for to fall: fell(trees) cedar which great to ruin to wail oak Bashan for to go down wood ([the] vintage *Q(K)*)
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,
3 voice: sound wailing [the] to pasture for to ruin clothing their voice: sound roaring lion for to ruin pride [the] Jordan
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.
4 thus to say LORD God my to pasture [obj] flock [the] slaughter
Thus said my God YHWH: “Feed the flock of the slaughter,
5 which to buy them to kill them and not be guilty and to sell them to say to bless LORD and to enrich and to pasture their not to spare upon them
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.
6 for not to spare still upon to dwell [the] land: country/planet utterance LORD and behold I to find [obj] [the] man man: anyone in/on/with hand: power neighbor his and in/on/with hand: power king his and to crush [obj] [the] land: country/planet and not to rescue from hand: power their
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.”
7 and to pasture [obj] flock [the] slaughter to/for so afflicted [the] flock and to take: take to/for me two rod to/for one to call: call by pleasantness and to/for one to call: call by union and to pasture [obj] [the] flock
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.
8 and to hide [obj] three [the] to pasture in/on/with month one and be short soul: myself my in/on/with them and also soul: myself their to loath in/on/with me
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul has abhorred me.
9 and to say not to pasture [obj] you [the] to die to die and [the] to hide to hide and [the] to remain to eat woman: another [obj] flesh neighbor her
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.”
10 and to take: take [obj] rod my [obj] pleasantness and to cut down/off [obj] him to/for to break [obj] covenant my which to cut: make(covenant) with all [the] people
And I take my staff Pleasantness, and cut it apart, to make void my covenant that I had made with all the peoples:
11 and to break in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and to know so afflicted [the] flock [the] to keep: look at [obj] me for word LORD he/she/it
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.
12 and to say to(wards) them if be pleasing in/on/with eye: appearance your to give wages my and if not to cease and to weigh [obj] wages my thirty silver: money
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.
13 and to say LORD to(wards) me to throw him to(wards) [the] to form: potter robe [the] preciousness which be precious from upon them and to take: take [emph?] thirty [the] silver: money and to throw [obj] him house: temple LORD to(wards) [the] to form: potter
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.
14 and to cut down/off [obj] rod my [the] second [obj] [the] union to/for to break [obj] [the] brotherhood between Judah and between Israel
And I cut apart my second staff, Bands, To break the unity between Judah and Israel.
15 and to say LORD to(wards) me still to take: take to/for you article/utensil to pasture foolish
And YHWH says to me, “Again take to yourself the instrument of a foolish shepherd.
16 for behold I to arise: raise to pasture in/on/with land: country/planet [the] to hide not to reckon: visit [the] newborn not to seek and [the] to break not to heal [the] to stand not to sustain and flesh [the] fat to eat and hoof their to tear
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.
17 woe! to pasture my [the] idol to leave: forsake [the] flock sword upon arm his and upon eye right his arm his to wither to wither and eye right his to grow dim to grow dim
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!”