Bible verse

Zechariah 11:4

This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,

Zechariah 11:4 · BSB

Zechariah 11:4 in context

The verses around it, from Zechariah 11.

1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!

3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,

5 whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

6 For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

7 So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

8 And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

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Zechariah 11:4 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;

ERV

Thus said the LORD my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;

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