Zechariah 11:15

And LORD said to me, Take to thee yet again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

In Context

14Then I cut apart my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound, but he will eat the flesh of the fat,

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and be healed.

Jeremiah 23:1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says LORD.

Ezekiel 13:3Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Matthew 15:14Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Luke 11:40Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:5-15

Judgments Predicted and Typified. ( b. c. 510.) 4 Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord ; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord : but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not… Read the whole commentary →

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