< Zechariah 11 >
1 to open Lebanon door your and to eat fire in/on/with cedar your
Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour 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)*)
Wail, 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.
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 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.
4 thus to say LORD God my to pasture [obj] flock [the] slaughter
The LORD my God says: “Feed the flock of 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
Their 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.
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 will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD; “but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men into his neighbour’s hand and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
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
So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favour” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed 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
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed 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
Then 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.”
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
I took my staff Favour and cut it apart, that I might break 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
It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the LORD’s word.
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
I 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.
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
The 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.
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
Then I cut apart my other staff, Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 and to say LORD to(wards) me still to take: take to/for you article/utensil to pasture foolish
The LORD said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment 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 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.
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 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!”