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Truly the family idols[a] talk nonsense
    and the diviners discern lies,
        describing delusional dreams.
Since their comfort is vacuous,
    they wander off on their own like sheep,
        because there is no shepherd.

“Against the shepherds my anger rises—
    I am punishing the leaders[b] also,
because the Lord of the Heavenly Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah,
    appointing them as his royal war horse for battle.
From them arises[c] the cornerstone and tent peg,
    from them the battle bow,
        from them arise all sorts of oppressive rulers.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 10:2 Lit. the teraphim; i.e. household images apparently used for divination
  2. Zechariah 10:3 Lit. rams
  3. Zechariah 10:4 The Heb. lacks arises