Zekaria 11
1 Fungua milango yako, ee Lebanoni, ili moto uteketeze mielezi yako!
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars.
2 Omboleza, enyi miti ya misonobari, kwani mierezi imeanguka! Kilichokuwa cha fahari kimeteketezwa! Ombolezeni, enyi mialoni ya Bashani, kwani msitu wenye nguvu umeshushwa.
Wail, pine-tree, for the cedar is fallen. Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the inaccessible forest has fallen.
3 Wachungaji wanapiga yowe, kwa kuwa utukufu wao umeharibiwa! Sauti ya mungurumo wa wana simba, kwa kuwa kiburi cha Mto Yordani kimeharibiwa!
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds! Their glory is destroyed. Listen to the roaring of young lions! Blasted is the thick forest of the Jordan.
4 Hivi ndivyo asemavyo Yahwe Mungu wangu, “Lichungeni kundi la kondoo lililotiyari kuchinjwa!
The Lord said to me: shepherd the flock destined for slaughter,
5 (Wanaowanunua wanawachinja bila kuhadhibiwa, nao wawauzao husema, 'Atukuzwe Yahwe! Nimetajirika! Kwa maana wachungaji wafanyao kazi kwa wenye kondoo hawawahurumii.)
whose possessors slaughter them, and hold themselves not guilty! The people who sell them say, Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich! And their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
6 Kwa maana hiyo sitawahurumia tena wenyeji wa nchi! - hivi ndivyo asemavyo Yahwe. Tazama! Mimi mwenyewe nipo tiyari kumwelekeza kila mtu katika mkono wa jirani yake na katika mkono wa mfalme wake, nao wataiharibu nchi na hakuna hata mmoja wao nitakayemwokoa kutoka katika mkono wao.”
I will no longer have pity on the people of this earth, says the Lord. I will turn neighbor against neighbor, and put everyone under the power of a king, and when the land is devastated I will not rescue them.
7 Hivyo nikawa mchungaji wa kondoo walioamriwa kuchinjwa, kwa wanaowashughulikia kondoo. Nilichukua fimbo mbili; fimbo moja nikaiita “Neema” na nyingine nikaiita “Umoja.” Kwa njia hii niliwachunga kondoo.
So I shepherded the flock of slaughter for the sheep-merchants. I took two staffs: one I called Mercy and the other I called Union. So I shepherded the sheep.
8 Ndani ya mwezi mmoja niliwaangamiza wachungaji watatu, kwa maana sikuwavumilia tena, wao pia walinichukia.
I set aside three of the shepherds in one month; for I was indignant against them, and they also were displeased at me.
9 Ndipo nilipowaambia wamiliki, “Sitafanya kazi kama mchungaji wenu tena. Wakondoo wafao - na wafe; kondoo wanaoangamizwa - na waangamizwe. Na kondoo wasaliao kila mmoja ale nyama ya jirani yake.”
I said, I will not shepherd you. What is dead, let it die. What is set aside, let it be set aside. And let those who are left devour one another’s flesh.
10 Hivyo nikaichukua fimbo yangu “Neema” na nikaivunja kuvunja agano nililokuwa nimelifanya na kabila zangu zote.
And I took my staff, Mercy, and broke it, so as to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11 Katika siku hiyo agano lilivunjwa, na wale wanaoshughulika na kondoo na waliokuwa wakiniangalia walifahamu kwamba Yahwe amesema.
In that day it was broken, and the sheep-merchants who watched me knew that it was the Lord’s message.
12 Nikawaambia, “Ikiwa itawapendeza, nilipeni ujira wangu. Kama sivyo, msifanye hivyo.” Hivyo wakapima ujira wangu - vipande thelathini vya fedha.
And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wage. If not, don’t.” So they weighed out my wage, thirty pieces of silver.
13 Kisha Yahwe akaniambia, “Weka fedha katika hazina, thamani nzuri zaidi ambayo walikupa!” Hivyo nikachukua vipande thelathini vya fedha na kuviweka katika hazina ndani ya nyumbani Yahwe.
And the Lord said to me, Cast it into the treasury – the precious wage that at which I was valued by them! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them into the house of the Lord, into the treasury.
14 Kisha nikavunja fimbo yangu ya pili, “Umoja,” kuvunja undugu kati ya Yuda na Israeli.
Then I broke my second staff called Union so as to dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Jerusalem.
15 Yahwe akaniambia, “Tena, chukua chombo cha mchungaji mpumbavu kwa ajili yako mwenyewe,
And the Lord said to me: Take again the implements of a worthless shepherd.
16 kwa maana tazama, niko tiyari kumweka mahali mchungaji katika nchi. Hataangalia kondoo wanaoangamia. Hatatafuta kondoo wapoteao, wala kuwaponya kondoo wachechemeao. Hatawalisha kondoo wenye afya, lakini atakula nyama ya kondoo walionona naye atapasua kwato zao.
For I am about to appoint a shepherd over the land. Those who are thrust down he will not visit. Those who are scattered he will not seek out. The wounded he will not heal, the sick he will not make whole, but the flesh of the fat he will devour and even their hoofs he will tear.
17 Ole kwa wachungaji wasiofaa wanaoliacha kundi la kondoo! Upanga na uje dhidi ya mkono wake na jicho lake la kulia! Mkono wake na ukauke na jicho lake la kulia lipofuke!
Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm completely wither. And his right eye be blinded.
