1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!
2 Wail, you cypress trees, for the cedars are fallen, the mighty have been despoiled. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest is cut down!
3 Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, their glory has been ruined. Hark! the roaring of the young lions, the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste.
4 Thus said the LORD, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered.
5 For they who buy them slay them with impunity; while those who sell them say, "Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich!" Even their own shepherds do not feel for them.
6 (Nor shall I spare the inhabitants of the earth any more, says the LORD. Yes, I will deliver each of them into the power of his neighbor, or into the power of his king; they shall crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.)
7 So I became the shepherd of the flock to be slaughtered for the sheep merchants. I took two staffs, one of which I called "Favor," and the other, "Bonds," and I fed the flock.
8 In a single month I did away with the three shepherds. I wearied of them, and they behaved badly toward me.
9 "I will not feed you," I said. "What is to die, let it die; what is to perish, let it perish, and let those that are left devour one another's flesh."
10 Then I took my staff "Favor" and snapped it asunder, breaking off the covenant which I had made with all peoples;
11 that day it was broken off. The sheep merchants who were watching me understood that this was the word of the LORD.
12 I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, let it go." And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
13 But the LORD said to me, "Throw it in the treasury, the handsome price at which they valued me." So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the LORD.
14 Then I snapped asunder my other staff, "Bonds," breaking off the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 The LORD said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd.
16 For I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that perish, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed what survives--he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!
17 Woe to my foolish shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; Let his arm wither away entirely, and his right eye be blind forever!
Versículos relacionados com Zechariah, 11:
Zechariah 11 is a chapter that deals with the destruction of Israel and the rejection of the Messiah by the Jews. The prophet talks about pastors who abandon the flock and the breaking of the covenant between God and the people of Israel. Below are five verses related to the topics addressed in Zechariah 11:
Isaiah 53:3: "Disregarded and rejected by men, a man of pain, and experienced in suffering; and as one of whom men hid their face, he was despised, and we did not do it at all." This verse talks about the rejection of the Messiah for the Jews, who did not recognize him as the Son of God.
Jeremiah 23:1: "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and disperse the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord." This verse talks about the pastors' neglect to take care of God's flock, which is similar to the situation described in Zechariah 11.
Ezekiel 34:10: "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds; from His hands I will require my sheep, and make them no longer feed the sheep, so that they no longer stand themselves; I will deliver my sheep out of your mouth, so that they do not serve their pasture. " This verse also refers to the pastors' neglect to take care of God's flock, and the need for God to intervene to save his sheep.
Psalm 79:1: "O God, the Gentiles entered your inheritance; they contaminated your holy temple; Jerusalem reduced to stones." This psalm talks about the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple of God, which was prophesied in Zechariah 11.
Matthew 21:42: "Jesus said unto them, Never read in Scripture, The stone that the builders rejected, this became the main stone, angular; does it proceed from the Lord and is wonderful to our eyes?" This verse refers to the rejection of the Messiah by the Jewish religious leaders, and its eventual importance as the cornerstone of God's Church.
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