Zechariah 11:3
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Thus said LORD my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,
Cross References
Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion's mouth, yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen. Thou have answered me.
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 7:4Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, are these.
Jeremiah 25:34Wail, ye shepherds, and cry. And wallow, ye principal men of the flock. For the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.
Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jeremiah 50:44Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it, and he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:2-4
Destruction of the Jewish State. ( b. c. 510.) 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. In dark and figurative expressions, as is usual in the scripture predictions of things at a great… Read the whole commentary →