Zechariah 11:10 Parallel Translations

Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it in pieces, to break the promise that I had made to all the nations. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

BBE:

And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

DBY:

And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

ERV:

And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

JPS:

And I took my staff Graciousness, and cut it asunder, 'that I might break My covenant which I had made with all the peoples.'

WBS:

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.

WEB:

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

YLT:

And I take My staff Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to make void My covenant that I had made with all the peoples:

Zechariah 11:10 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 89:39 You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.

Jeremiah 14:21 Do not despise us, for Your own name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.

Zechariah 11:7 So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

11:10 Even beauty - Which was the beauty and glory of them, the covenant of God, with all the blessings of it. That I might break - Declare it null. Christ calls it his covenant, for he was the mediator of it.

MHC:

11:4-14 Christ came into this world for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were wretchedly corrupt and degenerate. Those have their minds wofully blinded, who do ill, and justify themselves in it; but God will not hold those guiltless who hold themselves so. How can we go to God to beg a blessing on unlawful methods of getting wealth, or to return thanks for success in them? There was a general decay of religion among them, and they regarded it not. The Good Shepherd would feed his flock, but his attention would chiefly be directed to the poor. As an emblem, the prophet seems to have taken two staves; Beauty, denoted the privileges of the Jewish nation, in their national covenant; the other he called Bands, denoting the harmony which hitherto united them as the flock of God. But they chose to cleave to false teachers. The carnal mind and the friendship of the world are enmity to God; and God hates all the workers of iniquity: it is easy to foresee what this will end in. The prophet demanded wages, or a reward, and received thirty pieces of silver. By Divine direction he cast it to the potter, as in disdain for the smallness of the sum. This shadowed forth the bargain of Judas to betray Christ, and the final method of applying it. Nothing ruins a people so certainly, as weakening the brotherhood among them. This follows the dissolving of the covenant between God and them: when sin abounds, love waxes cold, and civil contests follow. No wonder if those fall out among themselves, who have provoked God to fall out with them. Wilful contempt of Christ is the great cause of men's ruin. And if professors rightly valued Christ, they would not contend about little matters.

CONC:

Agreement Annulling Apart Asunder Beautiful Beauty Break Broke Broken Covenant Cut Cutting Favor Grace Graciousness Lord's Nations Peoples Pieces Pleasantness Revoking Rod Staff Void

Agreement Annulling Apart Asunder Beautiful Beauty Break Broke Broken Covenant Cut Cutting Favor Grace Graciousness Lord's Nations Peoples Pieces Pleasantness Rod Staff Void

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