Zechariah · Free Bible Version
Zechariah 11 Free Bible Version
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1 Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire can burn up your cedars!
1 OH Líbano, abre tus puertas, y queme fuego tus cedros.
2 Weep, juniper, because the cedar has fallen, the majestic trees are ruined! Weep, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been cut down!
2 Aulla, oh haya, porque el cedro cayó, porque los magníficos son talados. Aullad, alcornoques de Basán, porque el fuerte monte es derribado.
3 Listen to the howls of the shepherds, for their pastureland is destroyed. Listen to the roars of the young lions, for their Jordan habitat is ruined.
3 Voz de aullido de pastores, porque su magnificencia es asolada; estruendo de bramidos de cachorros de leones, porque la soberbia del Jordán es destruída.
4 This is what the Lord my God says: Become a shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter.
4 Así ha dicho Jehová mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de la matanza;
5 Those who buy them kill them and don't feel guilty; those who sell them say, “Praise the Lord! Now I'm rich!” Even their shepherds don't care about them.
5 A las cuales mataban sus compradores, y no se tenían por culpables; y el que las vendía, decía: Bendito sea Jehová, que he enriquecido; ni sus pastores tenían piedad de ellas.
6 For I will no longer care about the people of the Land, declares the Lord. I am going to make them victims of each other, and of the king. They will devastate the earth and I won't help anyone get away from them.
6 Por tanto, no más tendré piedad de los moradores de la tierra, dice Jehová: porque he aquí, yo entregaré los hombres, cada cual en mano de su compañero, y en mano de su rey; y quebrantarán la tierra, y yo no libraré de sus manos.
7 So I became a shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter by the sheep merchants. Then I took two staffs, one named Grace, the other named Union, and I shepherded the flock.
7 Apacenté pues las ovejas de la matanza, es á saber, los pobres del rebaño. Y me tomé dos cayados; al uno puse por nombre Suavidad, y al otro Ataduras; y apacenté las ovejas.
8 In one month I dismissed three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also hated me.
8 E hice matar tres pastores en un mes, y mi alma se angustió por ellos, y también el alma de ellos me aborreció á mí.
9 Then I said, “I will not be your shepherd. If the sheep die, they die. Let those that are to perish, perish. Let those who are left eat each other!”
9 Y dije: No os apacentaré; la que muriere, muera; y la que se perdiere, se pierda; y las que quedaren, que cada una coma la carne de su compañera.
10 Then I took my staff called Grace and broke it, breaking the agreement I had made with all the peoples.
10 Tomé luego mi cayado Suavidad, y quebrélo, para deshacer mi pacto que concerté con todos los pueblos.
11 It was broken on that day, and the sheep merchants who were watching me knew that it was a message from the Lord.
11 Y fué deshecho en ese día, y así conocieron los pobres del rebaño que miran á mí, que era palabra de Jehová.
12 I told them, “If you want to pay me my wages, then do so. If not, then don't.” So they paid me my wages—thirty pieces of silver.
12 Y díjeles: Si os parece bien, dadme mi salario; y si no, dejadlo. Y pesaron para mi salario treinta [piezas] de plata.
13 And the Lord said to me, “Throw the money to the treasury,” this measly sum they thought I was worth! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the treasury of the Lord's Temple.
13 Y díjome Jehová: Echalo al tesorero, hermoso precio con que me han apreciado. Y tomé las treinta [piezas] de plata, y echélas en la casa de Jehová al tesorero.
14 Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the family union between Judah and Israel.
14 Quebré luego el otro mi cayado Ataduras, para romper la hermandad entre Judá é Israel.
15 The Lord told me, Get the things you use as a shepherd, a useless shepherd.
15 Y díjome Jehová: Toma aún el hato de un pastor insensato;
16 For I am placing a shepherd in charge of the land who won't care for those who are dying, or look for the lost, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy. Instead he will eat the meat from the fattest sheep. He even tears their hooves off.
16 Porque he aquí, yo levanto pastor en la tierra, que no visitará las perdidas, no buscará la pequeña, no curará la perniquebrada, ni llevará la cansada á cuestas; sino que se comerá la carne de la gruesa, y romperá sus uñas.
17 What disaster is coming to this useless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will wither away and his right eye will become completely blind.
17 Mal haya el pastor de nada, que deja el ganado. Espada sobre su brazo, y sobre su ojo derecho: del todo se secará su brazo, y enteramente será su ojo derecho oscurecido.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 22:23; Jeremiah 22:6–7; Luke 21:23–24; Deuteronomy 32:22; Habakkuk 2:8
- 2 Luke 23:31; Ezekiel 20:46; Isaiah 32:15–19; Isaiah 2:12–17; Nahum 3:8–19
- 3 Jeremiah 50:44; Jeremiah 25:34–36; 1 Samuel 4:21–22; Jeremiah 26:6; Hosea 10:5
- 4 Zechariah 11:7; Matthew 23:37; Romans 15:8; Ephesians 1:3; Isaiah 49:4–5
- 5 Jeremiah 50:7; 1 Timothy 6:5–10; Hosea 12:8; Ezekiel 34:18–19; Nehemiah 5:8
- 6 Jeremiah 13:14; Hebrews 10:26–31; Matthew 22:7; Isaiah 9:19–21; Micah 5:8
- 7 Zechariah 11:14; Isaiah 11:4; Zechariah 11:4; Ezekiel 37:16–23; Zechariah 11:10–11
- 8 John 15:18; John 7:7; Matthew 23:34–36; Isaiah 49:7; Hosea 5:7
- 9 Revelation 22:11; Matthew 13:10–11; Jeremiah 43:11; John 12:35; John 8:24
- 10 Zechariah 11:7; Psalm 89:39; Hebrews 8:8–13; Jeremiah 14:21; Jeremiah 31:31–32
- 11 James 2:5–6; Lamentations 3:25–26; Zephaniah 3:12; Isaiah 40:31; Luke 2:38
- 12 Matthew 26:15; Exodus 21:32; Luke 22:3–6; Mark 14:10–11; John 13:27–30
- 13 Matthew 27:3–10; Acts 1:18–19; Isaiah 53:2–3; Matthew 27:12; Acts 4:11
- 14 James 3:16; Isaiah 9:21; James 3:14; Ezekiel 37:16–20; Acts 23:7–10
- 15 Ezekiel 13:3; Lamentations 2:14; Jeremiah 2:26–27; Isaiah 6:10–12; Matthew 23:17
- 16 John 10:12–13; Jeremiah 23:2; Ezekiel 34:2–6; John 10:1; Matthew 23:13–29
- 17 Jeremiah 23:1; Ezekiel 13:3; Ezekiel 34:2; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Isaiah 42:19–20
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And I will say to them, If it be good in your sight, give me my price, or refuse, and the rest.
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