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   their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.   
      
   3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the   
   goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah,   
   and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.   
      
   4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the   
   battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.   
      
   5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the   
   mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the   
   LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.   
      
   6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of   
   Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon   
   them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the   
   LORD their God, and will hear them.   
      
   7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall   
   rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad;   
   their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.   
      
   8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and   
   they shall increase as they have increased.   
      
   9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in   
   far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.   
      
   10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather   
   them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and   
   Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.   
      
   11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite   
   the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and   
   the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt   
   shall depart away.   
      
   12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and   
   down in his name, saith the LORD.   
      
   Zechariah Chapter 11   
      
   1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.   
      
   2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are   
   spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is   
   come down.   
      
   3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is   
   spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan   
   is spoiled.   
      
   4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;   
      
   5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they   
   that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own   
   shepherds pity them not.   
      
   6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD:   
   but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and   
   into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of   
   their hand I will not deliver them.   
      
   7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock.   
   And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I   
   called Bands; and I fed the flock.   
      
   8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them,   
   and their soul also abhorred me.   
      
   9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and   
   that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat   
   every one the flesh of another.   
      
   10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might   
   break my covenant which I had made with all the people.   
      
   11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that   
   waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.   
      
   12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not,   
   forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.   
      
   13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price   
   that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver,   
   and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.   
      
   14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break   
   the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.   
      
   15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a   
   foolish shepherd.   
      
   16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not   
   visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal   
   that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat   
   the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.   
      
   17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be   
   upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up,   
   and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.   
      
   Zechariah Chapter 12   
      
   1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which   
   stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth,   
   and formeth the spirit of man within him.   
      
   2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people   
   round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and   
   against Jerusalem.   
      
   3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all   
   people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,   
   though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.   
      
   4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with   
   astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon   
   the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.   
      
   5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants   
   of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.   
      
   6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire   
   among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall   
   devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left:   
   and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.   
      
   7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of   
   the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not   
   magnify themselves against Judah.   
      
   8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he   
   that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house   
   of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.   
      
   9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all   
   the nations that come against Jerusalem.   
      
   10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of   
   Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look   
   upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one   
   mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one   
   that is in bitterness for his firstborn.   
      
   11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the   
   mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.   
      
   12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house   
   of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan   
   apart, and their wives apart;   
      
   13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the   
   family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;   
      
   14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.   
      
   Zechariah Chapter 13   
      
   1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and   
   to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.   
      
   2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I   
   will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no   
   more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean   
   spirit to pass out of the land.   
      
   3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his   
      
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