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Zechariah 11:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Listen to the wail  of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. Listen to the roar of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan  are   destroyed.

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‘Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets  , of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Babylon  away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ’


Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?  They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers  you have now become.


Leave them alone! They are blind guides.   And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’


In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.


On that day you  will not be put to shame because of everything you have done in rebelling  against me. For then I will remove from among you your jubilant,  arrogant people, and you will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.


The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.


On that day – this is the  Lord’s declaration – there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, a wailing from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.


Because of this, won’t the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.


Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.


The residents of Samaria  will have anxiety over the calf  of Beth-aven. Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it; the people will mourn over it, over its glory. It will certainly go into exile.


‘Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets  of the Jordan to the watered grazing land.  I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me?  Who will issue me a summons?  Who is the shepherd who can stand against me? ’


I will make this temple like Shiloh.  I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.” ’


Do not trust deceitful words, chanting, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’


I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.


The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.


You will leave your name behind as a curse for my chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you; but he will give his servants another name.


Their roaring is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions; they growl and seize their prey and carry it off, and no one can rescue it.


Wail, cypress,  for the cedar has fallen; the glorious trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen!


and say: What was your mother? A lioness! She lay down among the lions; she reared her cubs among the young lions.





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