Zechariah 11

petakh levanon delatekha vetokhal esh ba'arazekha

Throw open your gates, O Lebanon, And let fire consume your cedars!

helel berosh ki-nafal erez asher addirim shuddadu helilu allone vashan ki yarad ya'ar (hvtsvr) [habbatsir]

Howl, cypresses, for cedars have fallen! How the mighty are ravaged! Howl, you oaks of Bashan, For the stately forest is laid low!

qol yillat haro'im ki shuddedah addartam qol sha'agat kefirim ki shuddad ge'on hayyarden

Hark, the wailing of the shepherds, For their rich pastures are ravaged; Hark, the roaring of the great beasts, For the jungle of the Jordan is ravaged.

koh amar Adonai elohay re'eh et-tson haharegah

Thus said my God the ETERNAL One: Tend the sheep meant for slaughter,

asher qonehen yahargun velo yeshamu umokherehen yomar barukh Adonai vashir vero'ehem lo yakhmol alehen

whose buyers will slaughter them with impunity, whose seller will say, “Praised be GOD! I’ll get rich,” and whose shepherd will not pity them.

ki lo ekhmol od al-yosheve ha'arets ne'um-Adonai vehinneh anokhi mamtsi et-ha'adam ish beyad-re'ehu uveyad malko vekhittetu et-ha'arets velo atsil miyyadam

For I will pity the inhabitants of the land no more—declares GOD—but I will place everyone at the mercy of their neighbor and at the mercy of their king; they shall break the country to bits, and I will not rescue it from their hands.

va'ereh et-tson haharegah lakhen aniyye hatson va'eqqakh-li shene maqlot le'akhad qarati no'am ule'akhad qarati khovelim va'ereh et-hatson

So I tended the sheep meant for slaughter, for those poor ones of the sheep. I got two staffs, one of which I named Favor and the other Unity, and I proceeded to tend the sheep.

va'akhkhid et-sheloshet haro'im beyerakh ekhad vattiqtsar nafshi bahem vegam-nafsham bakhalah vi

But I lost the three shepherds in one month; then my patience with them was at an end, and they in turn were disgusted with me.

va'omar lo ereh etkhem hammetah tamut vehannikhkhedet tikkakhed vehannisharot tokhalnah isha et-besar re'utah

So I declared, “I am not going to tend you; let the one that is to die die and the one that is to get lost get lost; and let the rest devour each other’s flesh!”

va'eqqakh et-maqli et-no'am va'egda oto lehafer et-beriti asher karatti et-kol-ha'ammim

Taking my staff Favor, I cleft it in two, so as to annul the covenant I had made with all the peoples;

vattufar bayyom hahu vayyede'u khen aniyye hatson hashomerim oti ki devar-Adonai hu

and when it was annulled that day, the same poor ones of the sheep who watched me realized that it was a message from GOD.

va'omar alehem im-tov be'enekhem havu sekhari ve'im-lo khadalu vayyishqelu et-sekhari sheloshim kasef

Then I said to them, “If you are satisfied, pay me my wages; if not, don’t.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty shekels of silver—

vayyomer Adonai elay hashlikhehu el-hayyotser eder hayeqar asher yaqarti me'alehem va'eqkhah sheloshim hakkesef va'ashlikh oto bet Adonai el-hayyotser

the noble sum that I was worth in their estimation. GOD said to me, “Deposit it in the treasury.” And I took the thirty shekels and deposited it in the treasury in the House of GOD.

va'egda et-maqli hasheni et hakhovelim lehafer et-ha'akhavah ben yehudah uven yisra'el

Then I cleft in two my second staff, Unity, in order to annul the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

vayyomer Adonai elay od qakh-lekha keli ro'eh evili

GOD said to me further: Get yourself the gear of a foolish shepherd.

ki hinneh-anokhi meqim ro'eh ba'arets hannikhkhadot lo-yifqod hanna'ar lo-yevaqqesh vehannishberet lo yerappe hannitsavah lo yekhalkel uvesar habberi'ah yokhal ufarsehen yefareq

For I am going to raise up in the land a shepherd who will neither miss the lost [sheep], nor seek the strayed, nor heal the injured, nor sustain the frail, but will feast on the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs.

hoy ro'i ha'elil ozevi hatson kherev al-zero'o ve'al-en yemino zero'o yavosh tivash ve'en yemino kahoh tikhheh

Oh, the worthless shepherd Who abandons the flock! Let a sword descend upon his arm And upon his right eye! His arm shall shrivel up; His right eye shall go blind.