World English Bible
"Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter."
— Zechariah 11:4, World English Bible
“Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;”
“Thus said Jehovah 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 your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has 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 ruined.
Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.