Zechariah 11:3
The shepherds howl, for their glory has been destroyed! 1 The voice of the young lions' roar, for the pride of the Jordan River has been devastated!
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4This is what Yahweh my God says, “Like a shepherd, watch over the flock set aside for slaughter!
Cross References
Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion's mouth; 1 rescue me from the horns of the wild oxen. 1
Jeremiah 2:15Young lions roared against him. They made a lot of noise and made his land a horror. 1 His cities are destroyed without any inhabitants. 1
Jeremiah 7:4Do not entrust yourself to deceitful words and say, “Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh!”
Jeremiah 25:34Wail, shepherds, and shout for help! 1 Roll about in the dust, 1 you leaders of the flock, 1 for the days of your slaughter have come; 1 you will be scattered when you fall like fine pottery. 1
Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh; I will turn this city into a curse in the sight of all the nations on earth.'”
Jeremiah 50:44Behold! He goes up like a lion from the heights of the Jordan to the enduring grazing place 1 For I will quickly cause them to run from it, and I will put someone who will be chosen in charge of it. 1 For who is like me, and who will summon me? What shepherd is able to resist me? 1
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 →