Zakariyya 11
Open your doors, Lebanon,
That the fire may devour your cedars.
2Wail, 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.
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.
4Thus says Allah my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter. 5Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Praise be to Allah, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds do not pity them. 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Allah; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
7So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favour," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock. 8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. 9Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh." 10I took my staff Favour, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Allah. 12I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13Allah said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Allah. 14Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15Allah said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. 17Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"