• Zechariah 11:4

    Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

  • Zechariah 11:5

    Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

  • Zechariah 11:6

    For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliverb the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

  • Zechariah 11:7

    And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

  • Zechariah 11:8

    Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothedc them, and their soul also abhorred me.

  • Zechariah 11:9

    Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.d

  • Zechariah 11:10

    And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

  • Zechariah 11:11

    And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

Continues after advertising