Zechariah 11:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³Listen, the wail of the shepherds,
for their glory is despoiled!
Listen, the roar of the lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!

Two Kinds of Shepherds

⁴Thus said the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. ⁵Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich’; and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

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New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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