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Zechariah 11

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars !
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars .
Wail, O cypress , for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail , O oaks of Bashan , for the dense forest has been cut down !
Howl , fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl , O ye oaks of Bashan ; for the forest of the vintage is come down .
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds , for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions , for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed .
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds ; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions ; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled .
This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter ,
Thus saith the LORD my God ; Feed the flock of the slaughter ;
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, Blessed be the LORD , for I am rich !’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
Whose possessors slay them , and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD ; for I am rich : and their own shepherds pity them not .
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD , but behold , I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king , who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands .
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD : but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king : and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them .
So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock , and their souls also detested me.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month ; and my soul lothed them , and their soul also abhorred me.
Then I said, I will no longer shepherd you . Let the dying die , and the perishing perish ; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.
Then said I , I will not feed you : that that dieth, let it die ; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off ; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another .
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two , revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations .
And I took my staff , even Beauty, and cut it asunder , that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people .
It was revoked on that day , and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
And it was broken in that day : and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Then I told them, If it seems right to you , give me my wages ; but if not, keep them . So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
And I said unto them, If ye think good , give me my price ; and if not, forbear . So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter ”—this magnificent price at which they valued me . So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter : a goodly price that I was prised at of them . And I took the thirty pieces of silver , and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Then I cut in two my second staff called Union , breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
And the LORD said to me : Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
And the LORD said unto me , Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
For behold , I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost , nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves .
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one , nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces .
Woe to the worthless shepherd , who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye ! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm , and upon his right eye : his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

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