English Bible Presentation Sharing - Zechariah Book, chapter 11, verse 4 in Mkjv Version

Zechariah 11 : 1 (MKJV)

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

Zechariah 11 : 2 (MKJV)

Howl, juniper; for the cedar has fallen; because the majestic trees are devastated. Howl, O oaks of Bashan; for the inaccessible forest has come down.

Zechariah 11 : 3 (MKJV)

There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed. There is a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is destroyed.

Zechariah 11 : 4 (MKJV)

For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

Zechariah 11 : 5 (MKJV)

those buying them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them.

Zechariah 11 : 6 (MKJV)

For I will never again pity the people of the land, says Jehovah; but lo, I will make the men come out, each one into his neighbor's hand and into his king's hand. And they shall strike the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.

Zechariah 11 : 7 (MKJV)

And I fed the flock of slaughter, even the poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for myself; the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.

Zechariah 11 : 8 (MKJV)

I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also despised me.

Zechariah 11 : 9 (MKJV)

And 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 those left, let them eat, each woman her neighbor's flesh.

Zechariah 11 : 10 (MKJV)

And I took my staff Kindness, and broke it apart, to break My covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

Zechariah 11 : 11 (MKJV)

And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock who were watching Me knew that it was the Word of Jehovah.

Zechariah 11 : 12 (MKJV)

And I said to them, If it is good, give My price; and if not, let it go. So they weighed My price thirty pieces of silver.

Zechariah 11 : 13 (MKJV)

And Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of Jehovah.

Zechariah 11 : 14 (MKJV)

Then I broke My other staff Union apart, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Zechariah 11 : 15 (MKJV)

And Jehovah said to me, Take to yourself yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Zechariah 11 : 16 (MKJV)

For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those going to ruin, nor will he seek the young, nor will heal that which is broken, nor will he feed that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear off their hoofs.

Zechariah 11 : 17 (MKJV)

Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword shall be on his arm and on his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.