Zechariah 10:2
Household idols give worthless answers, fortune-tellers tell lies, while interpreters of dreams just make things up and offer only false hope. As a result, people wander aimlessly like sheep, suffering because there is no shepherd.
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Genesis 31:19While Laban was away from home shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
Deuteronomy 13:2and the sign or wonder happens. If after that they tell you, “Let's follow other gods that you don't know, and let's worship them,”
1 Kings 22:17So Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd. The Lord said, ‘These people have no master; let each of them go home in peace.’”
Job 21:34Why do you try to comfort me with worthless nonsense? Your answers are just a pack of lies!”
Isaiah 44:9All those who make idols are stupid; these things they love so much don't bring them any benefit. Those people who believe in idols can't see this, and they don't know anything, making them look foolish.
Isaiah 46:5Can you think of anyone is like me? Can you consider anyone to be my equal? Can you compare anyone with me, as if we were alike?
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 10:2-5
Encouragements to Trust in God. ( b. c. 510.) 1 Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd. 3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the Lord of hosts hath… Read the whole commentary →