Zechariah 11:5-7
Revised Geneva Translation
5 “Those who possess them, kill them and hold themselves sinless. And those who sell them, say, ‘Blessed be the LORD! For I am rich!’ And their own shepherds do not spare them.
6 “Surely I will no longer spare those who dwell in the land,” says the LORD. “But lo, I will deliver each one of the men into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. And they shall strike the land. And I will not deliver them out of their hands.”
7 So I fed the sheep of slaughter, even the poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for myself —the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands —and I fed the sheep.
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Zechariah 11:5-7
English Standard Version
5 (A)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, (B)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For (C)I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”
7 (D)So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named (E)Favor, the other I named (F)Union. (G)And I tended the sheep.
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