Zechariah 11

1 to open Lebanon door your and to eat fire in/on/with cedar your

Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire can burn up your cedars!

2 to wail cypress for to fall: fell(trees) cedar which great to ruin to wail oak Bashan for to go down wood ([the] vintage *QK)

Weep, juniper, because the cedar has fallen, the majestic trees are ruined! Weep, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been cut down!

3 voice: sound wailing [the] to pasture for to ruin clothing their voice: sound roaring lion for to ruin pride [the] Jordan

Listen to the howls of the shepherds, for their pastureland is destroyed. Listen to the roars of the young lions, for their Jordan habitat is ruined.

4 thus to say LORD God my to pasture [obj] flock [the] slaughter

This is what the Lord my God says: Become a shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter.

5 which to buy them to kill them and not be guilty and to sell them to say to bless LORD and to enrich and to pasture their not to spare upon them

Those who buy them kill them and don't feel guilty; those who sell them say, “Praise the Lord! Now I'm rich!” Even their shepherds don't care about them.

6 for not to spare still upon to dwell [the] land: country/planet utterance LORD and behold I to find [obj] [the] man man: anyone in/on/with hand: power neighbor his and in/on/with hand: power king his and to crush [obj] [the] land: country/planet and not to rescue from hand: power their

For I will no longer care about the people of the Land, declares the Lord. I am going to make them victims of each other, and of the king. They will devastate the earth and I won't help anyone get away from them.

7 and to pasture [obj] flock [the] slaughter to/for so afflicted [the] flock and to take: take to/for me two rod to/for one to call: call by pleasantness and to/for one to call: call by union and to pasture [obj] [the] flock

So I became a shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter by the sheep merchants. Then I took two staffs, one named Grace, the other named Union, and I shepherded the flock.

8 and to hide [obj] three [the] to pasture in/on/with month one and be short soul: myself my in/on/with them and also soul: myself their to loath in/on/with me

In one month I dismissed three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also hated me.

9 and to say not to pasture [obj] you [the] to die to die and [the] to hide to hide and [the] to remain to eat woman: another [obj] flesh neighbor her

Then I said, “I will not be your shepherd. If the sheep die, they die. Let those that are to perish, perish. Let those who are left eat each other!”

10 and to take: take [obj] rod my [obj] pleasantness and to cut down/off [obj] him to/for to break [obj] covenant my which to cut: make(covenant) with all [the] people

Then I took my staff called Grace and broke it, breaking the agreement I had made with all the peoples.

11 and to break in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and to know so afflicted [the] flock [the] to keep: look at [obj] me for word LORD he/she/it

It was broken on that day, and the sheep merchants who were watching me knew that it was a message from the Lord.

12 and to say to(wards) them if pleasant in/on/with eye: appearance your to give wages my and if not to cease and to weigh [obj] wages my thirty silver: money

I told them, “If you want to pay me my wages, then do so. If not, then don't.” So they paid me my wages—thirty pieces of silver.

13 and to say LORD to(wards) me to throw him to(wards) [the] to form: potter robe [the] preciousness which be precious from upon them and to take: take [emph?] thirty [the] silver: money and to throw [obj] him house: temple LORD to(wards) [the] to form: potter

And the Lord said to me, “Throw the money to the treasury,” this measly sum they thought I was worth! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the treasury of the Lord's Temple.

14 and to cut down/off [obj] rod my [the] second [obj] [the] union to/for to break [obj] [the] brotherhood between Judah and between Israel

Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the family union between Judah and Israel.

15 and to say LORD to(wards) me still to take: take to/for you article/utensil to pasture foolish

The Lord told me, Get the things you use as a shepherd, a useless shepherd.

16 for behold I to arise: raise to pasture in/on/with land: country/planet [the] to hide not to reckon: visit [the] newborn not to seek and [the] to break not to heal [the] to stand not to sustain and flesh [the] fat to eat and hoof their to tear

For I am placing a shepherd in charge of the land who won't care for those who are dying, or look for the lost, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy. Instead he will eat the meat from the fattest sheep. He even tears their hooves off.

17 woe! to pasture my [the] idol to leave: forsake [the] flock sword upon arm his and upon eye right his arm his to wither to wither and eye right his to grow dim to grow dim

What disaster is coming to this useless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will wither away and his right eye will become completely blind.