And Ephraim said, “I have certainly become (A)rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me
(B)No wrongdoing, which would be sin.”

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Ephraim boasts,(A)
    “I am very rich; I have become wealthy.(B)
With all my wealth they will not find in me
    any iniquity or sin.”

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Those who buy them slaughter them and [a]go (A)unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for (B)I have become rich!’ And their (C)own shepherds have no compassion for them.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:5 Lit are not held guilty

Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the Lord, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.(A)

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[a](A)Blessed are the poor in spirit, for (B)theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:3 I.e., fortunate or prosperous, and so through v 11

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.(A)

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You are (A)already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you!

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Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich!(A) You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you!

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