Zechariah 11

1 [You people of] [APO] Lebanon [should] open your gates, [because you will not be able to stop] fire from burning your cedar [trees]!

to open Lebanon door your and to eat fire in/on/with cedar your

2 Your cypress/pine [trees] [APO] should [also] wail because the cedar [trees] have been cut down. Those glorious/great trees have been destroyed. The oak trees in the Bashan [region] should also wail, because the other trees in the forest have been cut down.

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)*)

3 And listen to the shepherds crying because the fertile pastures have been ruined. Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the delightful forest [where they live] near the Jordan [River] has been ruined.

voice: sound wailing [the] to pasture for to ruin clothing their voice: sound roaring lion for to ruin pride [the] Jordan

4 This is what Yahweh my God said [to me]: “[I want you to] become a shepherd for a flock [of sheep that are about] to be slaughtered.

thus to say LORD God my to pasture [obj] flock [the] slaughter

5 The people who are going to buy the sheep will kill the sheep, and they will not be punished. Those who are selling the sheep say, ‘[I] praise Yahweh, [because] I will become rich!’ Even the shepherds do not feel sorry for the sheep.

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

6 And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow many of them [HYP] to be captured by other people or by their king. Those who capture them will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any [of the people].”

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

7 So I became the shepherd of a flock [of sheep that were about] to be slaughtered [for their meat to be sold] to the dealers. [I took good care of the sheep, even the ones that were the weakest sheep. Then] I took two [shepherds’] /walking sticks). I named the one [staff] ‘Kindness’ and the other [staff] ‘Union’. And I took good care of the sheep.

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

8 But the three shepherds [who had been working with me] detested me, and I became impatient with them. Within one month I (dismissed/got rid of) those shepherds.

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

9 So I said [to the dealers], “I will no [longer] be the shepherd. I will allow the ones that are dying to die. I will allow the ones that are getting lost to get lost. And I will not prevent those that remain from destroying each other.”

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

10 Then I took the staff that I had named ‘Kindness’ and I broke it. [That showed that Yahweh] was annulling/canceling the agreement that he had made with all the people-groups.

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

11 So that agreement was ended immediately. And the men who bought and sold sheep who were watching me knew [by seeing what I was doing] that I was giving them a message from Yahweh.

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

12 I told them, “If you think it is what you should do, pay me [for taking care of the sheep]. If you do not think that is what you should do, do not pay me.” So they paid me [only] 30 pieces of silver.

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

13 Then Yahweh said to me, “[That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have paid you]! [So] throw it to the man who makes clay pots!” So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I threw it in the chest where the offerings/money is kept.

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

14 Then I broke my second staff, [the one that I named] ‘Union’. That [indicated that] Judah and Israel would no longer be united.

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

15 Then Yahweh said to me, “Take again the things that a foolish shepherd uses,

and to say LORD to(wards) me still to take: take to/for you article/utensil to pasture foolish

16 because I am going to appoint a new king for the people, [one who will not take care of my people. He will be like a foolish shepherd]: [MET] He will not take care of those who are dying, those who are very young, those who have been injured, or those who do not have enough food. Instead, he will [treat them very cruelly, like a shepherd who would] [MET] kill and eat the best sheep and tear off their hoofs.

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

17 But terrible things will happen to that foolish/useless king who abandons the people [MET] over whom he rules. [His enemies] will strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. [The result will be that] he will have no strength in his arm, and his right eye will become completely blind.”

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