Zechariah 11:3
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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
4Thus said the 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 hast 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 the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, are these.
Jeremiah 25:34Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter are fully come, and I will break you in pieces, and ye shall fall like a pleasant 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, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of Jordan against the strong habitation: but I will suddenly make them run away from her; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over her: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will 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 →