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          DASV: Zechariah 11

1 Open your doors, O Lebanon,
     that the fire may consume your cedars.
2 Wail, O cypress tree, for the cedar is fallen,
           because the majestic ones are destroyed.
      Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
           for the thick forest has been cut down.
3 Listen, the sound of shepherds wailing,
           for their glory is destroyed.
      Listen, the sound of roaring young lions,
           for the thickets of the Jordan are ruined.

4 This is what the LORD my God says: "Feed the flock selected
for slaughter.
5 Those who buy them slaughter them, and go unpunished.
Those who sell them say, 'Praise the LORD, for I am rich.'
Their own shepherds show them no pity.
6 For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,"
says the LORD; "but I will deliver everyone into the hand of
his neighbor and king. They will destroy the land, and I will
not deliver them out of their hands."
7 So I shepherded the flock destined to slaughter, especially
the afflicted of the flock. I took two staves; the one I called
"Favor," and the other I called "Union" and I tended the flock.
8 I eliminated the three shepherds in one month; for I was
impatient with them, and they also detested me.
9 Then I said, "I will no longer be your shepherd. What is to
die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed.
Let those that survive eat one another's flesh."
10 So I took my staff Favor, and broke it in two, annulling my
covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11 It was annulled on that day. Those afflicted of the flock
that watched me knew that it represented the word of the LORD.

12 Then I said to them, "If it seems appropriate, give me my
wages; but if not, don't bother." So they weighed out my wages
at thirty pieces of silver.
13 Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter, that
extravagant 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.
14 Then I broke my other staff, Union, in two, annulling the bond
of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 Then the LORD said to me, "Take up once more the gear of a
foolish shepherd.
16 For I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not care
for those who are perishing, or seek those who are scattered,
or heal the injured, or even feed the healthy. Instead he will
eat the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock!
     May the sword slash his arm and his right eye.
     May his arm be totally withered
            and his right eye completely blinded."
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