Zechariah 11:3

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

² Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen. ³ Listen to the howling of shepherds, because their magnificence has been destroyed. Listen to the roaring of young lions, because the thickets of the Jordan have been devastated. ⁴ The Lord my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

Jordan

Jeremiah 50:44

"A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me.

Jeremiah 25:34-36

Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

1 Samuel 4:21-22

She named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

Psalm 22:21

Rescue me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered me!

Isaiah 65:15

Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The sovereign Lord will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.

Jeremiah 2:15

Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

Jeremiah 2:30

"It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion."

Jeremiah 7:4

Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says, "We are safe! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here!"

Jeremiah 7:11-14

Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:6

If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"

Jeremiah 49:19

"A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler who can stand up against me.

Ezekiel 19:3-6

She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

Ezekiel 24:21-25

Say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary -- the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life's passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.

Hosea 1:9-10

Then the Lord said: "Name him 'Not My People' (Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God."

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria will lament over the calf idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail over it, because its splendor will be taken from them into exile.

Joel 1:13

Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.

Amos 8:8

Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.

Zephaniah 1:10

On that day," says the Lord, "a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city's newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

Zephaniah 3:11

In that day you will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me, for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast, and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.

Zechariah 11:8

Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.

Zechariah 11:15-17

Again the Lord said to me, "Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

Matthew 3:7-10

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Matthew 15:14

Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit."

Matthew 21:43-45

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Matthew 23:13-38

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Acts 6:11-14

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!

Acts 22:21-22

Then he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

Romans 11:7-12

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

James 5:1-6

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.