Zechariah · Unlocked Literal Bible
Zechariah 11 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!
1 OH Líbano, abre tus puertas, y queme fuego tus cedros.
2 Lament, cypress trees, for the cedar trees have fallen! What was majestic has been devastated! Lament, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has gone 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 The shepherds howl, for their glory has been destroyed! The voice of the young lions' roar, for the pride of the Jordan River has been devastated!
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 Yahweh my God says, “Like a shepherd, watch over the flock set aside for slaughter!
4 Así ha dicho Jehová mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de la matanza;
5 (The ones who buy them slaughter them and are not punished, and the ones who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh! I have become rich!' for the shepherds working for the flocks' owners have no pity on 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 pity the inhabitants of the land!—this is Yahweh's declaration. See! I myself am about to turn over every person into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king, and they will destroy the land and none of them will I deliver them from their hand.”
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 the shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter, for those who dealt in sheep. I took two staffs; one staff I called “Favor” and the other I called “Unity.” In this way 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 destroyed the 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 to the owners, “I will not work as a shepherd for you any longer. The sheep that are dying—let them die; the sheep that are being destroyed—let them be destroyed. Let the sheep that remain each eat the flesh of its neighbor.”
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 So I took my staff “Favor” and broke it to break the covenant that I had made with all of my tribes.
10 Tomé luego mi cayado Suavidad, y quebrélo, para deshacer mi pacto que concerté con todos los pueblos.
11 On that day the covenant was broken, and those who dealt in sheep and who were watching me knew that Yahweh had spoken.
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 said to them, “If it seems good to you, pay me my wages. But if not, do not do it.” So they weighed out 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 Then Yahweh said to me, “Deposit the silver in the treasury, the excellent price at which they valued you!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and deposited them in the treasury in the house of Yahweh.
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, “Unity,” to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
14 Quebré luego el otro mi cayado Ataduras, para romper la hermandad entre Judá é Israel.
15 Yahweh said to me, “Again, take the equipment of a foolish shepherd for yourself,
15 Y díjome Jehová: Toma aún el hato de un pastor insensato;
16 for see, I am about to set in place a shepherd in the land. He will not care for the perishing sheep. He will not seek out the sheep gone missing, nor heal the crippled sheep. He will not feed the sheep that are healthy, but will eat the flesh of the fattened sheep and will tear off their hooves.
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 Woe to the worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword come against his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither away and may his right eye become 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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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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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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