Zechariah 11:5-7
Lexham English Bible
5 The ones buying them kill them and go unpunished, and the ones selling them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I have become rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them. 6 For I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land,” declares[a] Yahweh. “Look, I am going to cause humankind to fall, each into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they will devastate the land, and I will not deliver anyone from their hand.”
7 And I shepherded the flock[b] doomed to slaughter, even[c] the afflicted[d] of the flock.[e] I took two staffs, one I called Kindness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock.[f]
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- Zechariah 11:6 Literally “declaration of”
- Zechariah 11:7 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
- Zechariah 11:7 Hebrew “therefore”
- Zechariah 11:7 LXX reads “merchants of the flock” which is reflected in some English translations
- Zechariah 11:7 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
- Zechariah 11:7 The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
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