The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Zechariah 10:10 (NIV)

10 I will bring them back from Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon,
and there will not be room enough for them.
 
Zechariah 10:11 (NIV)

11 They will pass through the sea of trouble;
the surging sea will be subdued
and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.
Assyria’s pride will be brought down
and Egypt’s sceptre will pass away.
 
Zechariah 10:12 (NIV)

12 I will strengthen them in the Lord
and in his name they will live securely,’
declares the Lord.
 
Zechariah 11:2 (NASB)

2 Wail, juniper, because the cedar has fallen,
For the magnificent trees have been destroyed;
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
Because the impenetrable forest has come down.
 
Zechariah 11:3 (NASB)

3 There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,
For their splendor is ruined;
There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
 
Zechariah 11:5 (NASB)

5 Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord,
for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
 
Zechariah 11:6 (NASB)

6 For I will no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will let the people fall,
each into another’s power and into the power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not rescue them from their power.”
 
Zechariah 11:7 (NASB)

7 So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, therefore also the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one
I called Favor, and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.
 
Zechariah 11:8 (NASB)

8 Then I did away with the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was tired of me.
 
Zechariah 11:9 (NASB)

9 Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to perish, let it perish; and let those who are left eat
one another’s flesh.”
 
Zechariah 11:10 (NASB)

10 And I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
 
Zechariah 11:11 (NASB)

11 So it was broken on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.
 
Zechariah 11:12 (NASB)

12 And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!” So they weighed out thirty shekels
of silver as my wages.
 
Zechariah 11:13 (NASB)

13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.”
So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
 
Zechariah 11:14 (NASB)

14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
 
Zechariah 11:15 (NASB)

15 And the Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
 
Zechariah 11:16 (NASB)

16 For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken,
or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs
 
Zechariah 11:17 (NASB)

17 Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who abandons the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered,
And his right eye will be blind.”
 
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