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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Zechariah 11 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/zechariah/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/zechariah/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Zechariah 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zechariah/10.htm" title="Zechariah 10">◄</a> Zechariah 11 <a href="../zechariah/12.htm" title="Zechariah 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Open your doors, O Lebanon,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so that fire may devour your cedars!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the glorious trees are ruined!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Wail, oaks of Bashan,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the thick forest has been felled!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Listen, the wail of the shepherds,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for their glory is despoiled!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Listen, the roar of the lions,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Two Kinds of Shepherds</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Thus said the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, “Blessed be the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for I have become rich”; and their own shepherds have no pity on them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbor, and each into the hand of the king; and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>So, on behalf of the sheep merchants, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>I took my staff Favor and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep merchants, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I then said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me, “Throw it into the treasury”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-27314a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-27314b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then I broke my second staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-27317c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-27317d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Oh, my worthless shepherd,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who deserts the flock!</span></span><br /><span class="text">May the sword strike his arm</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and his right eye!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Let his arm be completely withered,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">his right eye utterly blinded!</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Zechariah 11:13">Zechariah 11:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>it to the potter</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Zechariah 11:13">Zechariah 11:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>it to the potter</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Zechariah 11:16">Zechariah 11:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr Compare Gk Vg: Heb <i>the youth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Zechariah 11:16">Zechariah 11:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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