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Zechariah 11:5

World English Bible

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.

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Zechariah 11:5 in other translations

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.

Zechariah 11:5 · American Standard Version

Zechariah 11:5 in context

  1. 3A 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.
  2. 4Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
  3. 5Their 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.
  4. 6For 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.”
  5. 7So 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.