Zechariah 11:4-8

Two Shepherds

4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.
5 Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the LORD, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them.
6 For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the LORD. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”
7 So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
8 In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them

Cross References 6

  • 1. S Jeremiah 25:34
  • 2. Jeremiah 50:7; S Ezekiel 34:2-3
  • 3. Zechariah 14:13
  • 4. Isaiah 9:19-21; S Jeremiah 13:14; S Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 5:8; S Mic Lamentations 5:8; Micah 7:2-6
  • 5. S Jeremiah 25:34
  • 6. S Ezekiel 14:5
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