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Zechariah Chapter 11

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Destruction of Jerusalem

11:1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that the fire may devour your cedars.

The staffs of Beauty and Bands broken


11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are destroyed: howl, O ya’ll oaks of Bashan; because the impregnable forest has come down.
11:3 There is a sound of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed: a sound of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is ruined.
11:4 So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
my El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
; Tend the flock of the slaughter;
11:5 those who them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty: and those who sell them say, Blessed be YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
; for I am rich: and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
11:6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
: but, see, I giving over the men, each one to 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 hand .
11:7 And I will tended the flock of slaughter, because they were poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself; one I called Kindness, and the other I called Sorrows; and I tended the flock.
11:8 A
lso I removed three shepherds in one month; and My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
11:9 Then I said, I will not tend you: Let the one dying, die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off. And as for the rest let each eat the flesh of one another.
11:10: And I took My staff, even Kindness, and broke it apart, that I might break My covenant which I had cut with all the people.
11:11 And it was broken on that day: and so the poor of the flock that watched me knew that it [was] the word of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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11:12 And I said to them, If [its] proper in your eyes, give me My fee; and if not, refrain. So they weighed My fee, thirty [pieces] of silver.
11:13 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said to me, Throw it to the potter: a goodly price that I was valued by them. And I took the [thirty pieces of silver], and threw it to the potter in the house of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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11:14 Then I broke my other staff, Sorrows apart, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

The foolish shepherd


11:15 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said to me, Take to yourself the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
11:16 For, look, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not pay attention to those that are cut off, neither shall seek out the young, nor heal that is broken, nor sustain that stands still: but he shall eat the flesh of the healthy, and tear their hooves in pieces.
11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd that abandons the flock! The sword on his arm, and on his right eye:  May his arm be completely withered, and his right eye shall be totally blinded.

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