Catholic Public Domain Version
"And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me. "
— Zechariah 11:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.”
“And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. ”
“I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.”
“Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.”
“And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.”
“And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.”
“Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.”
which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.”
And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.
And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured the flock.
And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me.
And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.
And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.
And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.