Zechariah 11:1-6

English Standard Version

The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

11 Open your doors, ^(A)O Lebanon,
    that the fire may devour your cedars!
²Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
    for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, ^(B)oaks of Bashan,
    for the thick forest has been felled!
³The sound of ^(C)the wail of ^(D)the shepherds,
    for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of ^(E)the lions,
    ^(F)for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

⁴Thus said the Lord my God: ^(G)“Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. ⁵^(H)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, ^(I)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. ⁶For ^(J)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.”