Zechariah 11:10

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

So I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And I took{H3947} my staff{H4731} Beauty,{H5278} and cut it asunder,{H1438} that I might break{H6565} my covenant{H1285} which I had made{H3772} with all the peoples.{H5971}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And I took{H3947}{(H8799)} my staff{H4731}, even Beauty{H5278}, and cut it asunder{H1438}{(H8799)}, that I might break{H6565}{(H8687)} my covenant{H1285} which I had made{H3772}{(H8804)} with all the people{H5971}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    I toke also my louynge meke staff, ad brake it, that I might disanull the conuenaunt, which I made with all people,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And I tooke my staffe, euen Beautie, and brake it, that I might disanull my couenant, which I had made with all people.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    I toke also my staffe euen Beautie, and brake it, that I might disanull the couenaunt which I made with all people.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Then I took my staff“Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

Referenced Verses

  • Zech 11:7 : 7 So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs—one I called Favor and the other Union—and I shepherded the flock.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 But you have rejected and spurned; you have been furious with your anointed one.
  • Jer 14:21 : 21 For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
  • Jer 31:31-32 : 31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, declares the LORD.
  • Ezek 7:20-22 : 20 They took pride in the beauty of their jewelry and made it into images of their detestable idols. Therefore, I will make it a thing of uncleanness for them. 21 I will give it into the hands of foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. 22 I will turn my face away from them, and they will desecrate my treasured place. Violent men will enter it and desecrate it.
  • Ezek 16:59-61 : 59 For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you as you have done, since you despised the oath by breaking the covenant. 60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. 61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am about to profane my sanctuary—the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.’
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 After the sixty-two weeks, the Anointed One will be cut off and have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and desolation has been decreed until the end of the war.
  • Hos 1:9 : 9 Then the LORD said, "Call him Lo-Ammi (Not My People), for you are not my people, and I am not your God."
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands.
  • Num 14:34 : 34 For forty days you explored the land; now, for each day, you will bear your guilt for a year—forty years—and you will know my opposition.
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: I certainly said that your house and your father’s house would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For those who honor Me I will honor, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
  • Ps 50:2 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
  • Luke 21:5-6 : 5 Some people were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, and he said, 6 ‘As for these things you see, days are coming when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.’
  • Luke 21:32 : 32 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
  • Acts 6:13-14 : 13 They presented false witnesses who said, 'This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.' 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.
  • Rom 9:3-5 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own people according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, came Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
  • Gal 3:16-18 : 16 Now to Abraham the promises were spoken, and to his seed. It does not say, 'and to seeds,' as if referring to many, but, 'and to your seed,' meaning one, who is Christ. 17 This is what I mean: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise. 18 For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise; but God gave it to Abraham through a promise.
  • Heb 7:17-22 : 17 For it is testified: 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.' 18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless, 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. 20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, 21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: 'The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: You are a priest forever.' 22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
  • Heb 8:8-9 : 8 But finding fault with them, he says: 'Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.' 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord. 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbors or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more. 13 By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

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