King James Version with Apocrypha
"Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;"
— Zechariah 11:4, King James Version with Apocrypha
“Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;”
“Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of 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;”
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
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.
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver 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.
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.