Kniha proroka Zachariáša

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Za 11, 1-17

1 Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars. 2 Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut down. 3 The voice of the howling of the shepherds: for their magnificence has been devastated. The voice of the roaring of the lions: because the arrogance of the Jordan has been devastated. 4 Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter, 5 which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.” 6 And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand. 7 And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured the flock. 8 And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me. 9 And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor. 10 And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people. 11 And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord. 12 And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins. 13 And the Lord said to me: Cast it towards the statuary, the handsome price at which I have been valued by them. And I took the thirty silver coins, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, towards the statuary. 14 And I cut short my second staff, which was called Rope, so that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 15 And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs. 17 O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.

Verš 17

O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.

Jer 23:1 - “Woe to the shepherds who scatter and tear apart the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord.

Ez 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy about the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and you shall say to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds?

Jn 10:12 - But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep.

Verš 12

And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.

Mt 26:15 - and he said to them, “What are you willing to give me, if I hand him over to you?” So they appointed thirty pieces of silver for him.

Mt 27:9 - Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one being appraised, whom they appraised before the sons of Israel,

Zach 11,1-3 - Cédre, duby a levíčatá zvýrazňujú pyšných veľmožov krajiny. O Bášane a jeho duboch pozri pozn. k Iz 2,13.

Zach 11,4-6 - Stádo zvýrazňuje prorokov národ a volá sa stádom na porážku preto, lebo ho vlastní vodcovia nivočia. Vodcovia sa tu volajú majiteľmi, kupcami, pastiermi. Pretože títo nemali zľutovania nad stádom, ani Boh sa nezľutuje nad nimi.

Zach 11,7 - Pastierom vyvoleného národa bol sám Boh a prorok svojím správaním len zvýrazňuje, ako sa Boh staral o svoje stádo. Prorok sa ujíma pastierskeho úradu, aby ochránil stádo od tých, čo ho ničia. Palica, ktorú nazval Vľúdnosť, predstavuje priazeň, ktorou Boh viedol svoj ľud; druhá, zvaná Puto, zasa Božiu starostlivosť o to, aby stádo zostalo jednotné a nerozpŕchlo sa.

Zach 11,8 - Odstránil nesvedomitých vodcov, ktorí sa vo verši 5 spomínajú menami "majitelia, kupci a pastieri"; ale stádo bolo tiež spoluvinné s pastiermi, preto ho Boh opustil.

Zach 11,10 - Zmluvu s národmi, aby neškodili Izraelu, uzavrel Boh, ktorého prorok v symbolickom úkone zvýrazňuje.

Zach 11,11 - Tí z národa, čo si všímali Pána, uznali, že nešťastia, ktoré národ stíhajú, sú Božím trestom.

Zach 11,12 - Pastier dáva výpoveď.

Zach 11,13 - Tridsať strieborných bola cena otroka (Ex 21,32). Pre takého pastiera, akým bol Pán, a za toľké dobrodenia, ktoré národu preukázal, je to naozaj posmešne "nádherná mzda". Pán sám prehlasuje, že touto mzdou nie proroka ocenil národ, ale Boha. Tvorcom sa vo Svätom písme často volá Boh. Ale slovo "tvorca" znamená aj hrnčiara, ktorý z hliny tvorí nádoby. V tomto zmysle sa proroctvo splnilo, keď za 30 strieborných, za ktoré Judáš zradil Spasiteľa, kúpili Hrnčiarovo pole. O poli Zachariáš nehovorí, o tom písal prorok Jeremiáš (Jer 32). Sv. Matúš (27,5-10) uvádza obidve tieto proroctvá, ale po mene spomína len Jeremiáša.

Zach 11,15 - Druhý raz má prorok zvýrazňovať pastiera hlúpeho, bezbožného. Takýmito boli vodcovia, ktorí zavinili úplnú záhubu národa. K výrazom porov. Ez 34,2-8. Zlý pastier pozráža ovciam paprčky, lebo ich bude bezohľadne vodiť po zlých cestách.