Zechariah 11:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

Young's Literal Translation
And I say, ‘I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.’

King James Bible
Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.

Hebrew
Then I said,
וָאֹמַ֕ר (wā·’ō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“I will no longer
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

shepherd you.
אֶרְעֶ֖ה (’er·‘eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

Let the dying
הַמֵּתָ֣ה (ham·mê·ṯāh)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

die,
תָמ֗וּת (ṯā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

and the perishing
וְהַנִּכְחֶ֙דֶת֙ (wə·han·niḵ·ḥe·ḏeṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 3582: To secrete, by act, word, to destroy

perish;
תִּכָּחֵ֔ד (tik·kā·ḥêḏ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3582: To secrete, by act, word, to destroy

let the rest
וְהַ֨נִּשְׁאָר֔וֹת (wə·han·niš·’ā·rō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 7604: To swell up, be, redundant

devour
תֹּאכַ֕לְנָה (tō·ḵal·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

one
אִשָּׁ֖ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

another's
רְעוּתָֽהּ׃ (rə·‘ū·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7468: A female associate, an additional one

flesh.”
בְּשַׂ֥ר (bə·śar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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