Open your doors, Lebanon,So that a ^afire may feed on your ^bcedars.

4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to ^aslaughter. 5 Those who buy them slaughter them and ¹go ^aunpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for ^bI have become rich!’ And their ^cown shepherds have no compassion for them. 6 For I will ^ano longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will ^blet the people fall, each into another’s ¹power and into the ²power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will ^cnot rescue them from their ³power.”

7 So I ^apastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ¹therefore also the ^bafflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^cstaffs: the one I called ^2dFavor, and the other I called ^eUnion; so I pastured the flock. 8 Then I did away with the three shepherds in ^aone month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ¹was tired of me. 9 Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^adie, ¹let it die, and what is to perish, ²let it perish; and ³let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” 10 And I took my staff ^1aFavor and cut it in pieces, to ^2bbreak my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was ¹broken on that day, and ²so the ^aafflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD. 12 And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^awages; but if not, ¹never mind!” So they weighed out ^bthirty shekels of silver as my wages. 13 Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the ^apotter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff ^aUnion, to ^bbreak the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 And the LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a ^afoolish shepherd. 16 For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will ^anot care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will ^bdevour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

4 Thus says the LORD my God, “Pasture the flock doomed for ^aslaughter, 5 whose buyers slay them and go ^aunpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for ^bI have become rich!’ And their ^cown shepherds have no pity on them nor protect them from the wolves. 6 For I will ^ano longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will ^bcause the men to fall, each into the hand of another and into the hands of his foreign king. And the enemy will strike the land, and I will ^cnot rescue the people from their hand.”

7 So I Zechariah ^apastured the flock doomed for slaughter, truly as the name implies the most ^bmiserable of sheep. And I took two shepherd’s ^cstaffs, the one I called ^dFavor (Grace) and the other I called ^eUnion (Bonds) ; so I pastured the flock. 8 Then I eliminated the three incompetent, unfit shepherds the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets in ^aone month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me. Jer 2:8, 26; 18:18 9 So I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^adie, let it die, and what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let the survivors devour one another’s flesh.” 10 I took my staff, ^aFavor, and broke it in pieces, ^bbreaking the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So the covenant was broken on that day, and thus the most ^awretched of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD. 12 I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my ^awages; but if not, do not.” So they weighed out ^1bthirty pieces of silver as my wages. 13 ¹Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the ^apotter as if to the dogs—that magnificent sum at which I am valued by them!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. Matt 26:14, 15; 27:3-10 14 Then I broke my second staff, ^aUnion, into pieces to ^bbreak the brotherhood between Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and Israel (the Northern Kingdom) .

15 The LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a shepherd, but this time of a ^afoolish shepherd. Ezek 34:2-6 16 For behold, I am going to raise up a false shepherd in the land who will ^anot care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or feed the healthy; but will ^beat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs to consume everything.