Zechariah 10:2

For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Ask ye of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to everyone grass in the field.

3Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit his flock, the house of Judah, and he shall make them as his goodly horse in war.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.

Deuteronomy 13:2And if there arise within thee a prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives thee a sign or a wonder,

1 Kings 22:17And he said, Not so. I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains as a flock without a shepherd: and the Lord said, Is not God lord of these? let each one return to his home in peace.

Job 21:34How then do ye comfort me in vain? 1 Whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

Isaiah 44:9But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

Isaiah 46:5To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.

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 →

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