Zacarias 11

1 Open your doors, Lebanon,

that the fire may devour your cedars.

2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,

because the stately ones are destroyed.

Wail, you oaks of Bashan,

for the strong forest has come down.

3 A 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.

4 Yahweh my God says: "Feed the flock of slaughter. 5 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. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver every one of the men 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."

7 So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, 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. 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. 9 Then 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." 10 I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word. 12 I 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. 13 Yahweh 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 Yahweh’s house. 14 Then I cut apart my other staff, Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 16 For, 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 meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will strike his arm and his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"

1 Whakatuwheratia ōu kūwaha, e Repanōna,

kia kai ai te ahi i ōu hīta!

2 Auē, e te kauri; kua hinga hoki te hīta,

kua pāhuatia ngā mea ātaahua!

Auē, e ngā oki o Pahana,

kua riro iho hoki te ngahere kāhore nei e taea atu!

3 He reo nō ngā hēpara e auē ana;

nō te mea kua oti tō rātou korōria te pāhua!

He reo nō ngā kūao raiona e ngengere ana;

nō te mea kua oti te whakapehapeha o Horano te pāhua!

Ngā Hēpara Tokorua

4 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, a tōku Atua: "Whāngaia ngā hipi, ngā mea e patua ana. 5 E patua ana hoki e ngā tāngata nāna, tē ai he whakahē ake; ko te kī a ō rātou kaihoko, ‘Kia whakapaingia a Ihowā; kua whiwhi hoki ahau ki te taonga’; kāhore hoki he manawapā o ō rātou hēpara ki a rātou. 6 E kore hoki ahau e manawapā ki ngā tāngata o te whenua ā muri ake nei," e ai tā Ihowā. "Engari, nā, ka tukua ngā tāngata ki te ringa o tōna hoa, o tōna hoa, ki te ringa anō o tōna kīngi; ā, mā rātou te whenua e patu; e kore anō ahau e whakaora i a rātou i roto i ō rātou ringa."

7 Nā, kei te whāngai ahau i ngā hipi e patua ana, i ngā mea iti anō o te kāhui. I tīkina anō e ahau ētahi tokotoko e rua mōku, tapā iho e ahau tētahi ko Ātaahua, tētahi tapā iho e ahau, ko ngā Paihere; nā, kei te whāngai ahau i ngā hipi. 8 He mea hātepe anō nāku ngā hēpara tokotoru i te marama kotahi; i whakarihariha hoki tōku wairua ki a rātou, ko ō rātou wairua hoki i whakarihariha ki ahau. 9 Kātahi ahau ka kī atu, "E kore koutou e whāngaia e ahau. Ko te mea mō te mate kia mate, ko te mea e hātepea kia hātepea; kia kai hoki ngā toenga i ngā kikokiko o tōna hoa, o tōna hoa."

10 Nā, kua mau ahau ki tōku tokotoko ki a Ātaahua, tapahia pūtia ana e ahau, he whakatakanga i tāku kawenata i whakaritea e ahau ki ngā iwi katoa. 11 Nā, kua whakatakā i taua rā; ā, mōhio tonu iho ngā mea iti o te kāhui i tatari ki ahau, nā Ihowā taua kupu.

12 I mea anō ahau ki a rātou, "Ki te mea e pai ana ki tā koutou titiro, hōmai tōku utu; ki te kāhore, kauaka." Nā, pāunatia mai ana tōku utu e rātou, e toru tekau hiriwa.

13 Nā, ka kī mai a Ihowā ki ahau, "Makā atu ki te kaihanga rīhi" – te utu pai i whakaritea mōku e rātou. Nā, ka mau ahau ki ngā hiriwa e toru tekau, ā, makā atu ana e ahau ki te kaihanga rīhi i te whare o Ihowā.

14 Kātahi ka tapahia pūtia e ahau te rua o ōku tokotoko, arā ngā Paihere, kia kore ai te tuākanatanga o Hūrā ki a Īharaira.

15 I kī mai anō a Ihowā ki ahau: "Tīkina anō ētahi mea a te hēpara wairangi māu. 16 Nō te mea, nā, ka ara i ahau tētahi hēpara i te whenua; e kore ia e tirotiro i ngā mea ka motuhia atu, e kore e rapu i ngā mea kua marara, e kore e rongoā i te mea he whati tōna, e kore anō e whāngai i te mea e toitū ana; engari ka kainga e ia te kikokiko o te mea mōmona, ko ō rātou matikuku tītaritaria rawatia e ia.

17 Auē te mate mō te hēpara hauwarea,

e whakarere ana i ngā hipi!

Ka pā te hoari ki tōna ringa,

ki tōna kanohi matau!

Ka memenge rawa tōna ringa,

ka pōuri rawa tōna kanohi matau!"