11Zechariah 11

CHAP. XI. / 1 The destruction of Ierusalem. 3 The elect being cared for, the rest are reiected. 10 The staues of beaust and bands broken by the reiection of Christ. 15 The Type and curse of a foolish

1Open thy doores, O Lebanon, that the fire may deuoure thy cedars.Select Zechariah 11:1

2Howle firre tree, for the cedar is fallen; because all the mighty are spoiled; howle O yee okes of Bashan, for the forrest of the vintage is come downe.Select Zechariah 11:2

3There is a voyce of the howling of the shepheards; for their glory is spoiled: a voyce of the roaring of young lyons; for the pride of Iordan is spoiled.Select Zechariah 11:3

4Thus saith the Lord my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;Select Zechariah 11:4

5Whose possessours slay them, and hold themselues not guiltie: and they that sell the say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their owne shepheards pitie them not.Select Zechariah 11:5

6For I will no more pitie the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but loe, I will deliuer the men euery one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliuer them.Select Zechariah 11:6

7And I will feede the flocke of slaughter, euen you, O poore of the flock: and I tooke vnto me two staues; the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the flocke.Select Zechariah 11:7

8Three shepheards also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule loathed them, and their soule also abhorred mee.Select Zechariah 11:8

9Then said I, I will not feede you: that that dieth, let it die: and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the rest eate, euery one the flesh of another.Select Zechariah 11:9

10And I tooke my staffe, euen Beautie, and cut it asunder, that I might breake my couenant which I had made with all the people.Select Zechariah 11:10

11And it was broken in that day: and so the poore of the flocke that waited vpon me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.Select Zechariah 11:11

12And I said vnto them, If yee thinke good, giue me my price: and if not, forbeare: so they weighed for my price thirtie pieces of siluer.Select Zechariah 11:12

13And the Lord said vnto mee, Cast it vnto the potter: a goodly price, that I was prised at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pieces of siluer, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.Select Zechariah 11:13

14Then I cut asunder mine other staffe, euen Bands, that I might break the brotherhood betweene Iudah and Israel.Select Zechariah 11:14

15And the Lord said vnto me, Take vnto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepheard.Select Zechariah 11:15

16For loe, I wil raise vp a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that bee cut off, neither shall seeke the yong one, nor heale that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shal eate the flesh of the fat, and teare their clawes in pieces.Select Zechariah 11:16

17Woe to the idoll shepheard that leaueth the flocke: the sword shall be vpon his arme, and vpon his right eye: his arme shall be cleane dryed vp, and his right eye shall be vtterly darkened.Select Zechariah 11:17