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 ruined.
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In Context
4Thus says the Lord my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
Cross References
Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion's mouth!Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust in lying words, saying, "The Lord's temple, The Lord's temple, The Lord's temple, are these."
Jeremiah 25:34Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in dust, you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.
Jeremiah 26:6then will I 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 whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? And who will appoint me a time? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me?"
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 →