American Standard Version
"Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter; "
— Zechariah 11:4, American Standard Version
“Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;”
“Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.”
“The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.”
“Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,”
“This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;”
“Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;”
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.
Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’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.
So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the 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.