Zechariah 11:8

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

⁷ So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock. ⁸ In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. ⁹ Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is going astray go astray; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.”

In Me

Isaiah 49:7

This is what the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says
to one who is despised,
to one abhorred by people,
to a servant of rulers:
“Kings will see and stand up,
and princes will bow down,
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel—and He has chosen you.”

Hosea 5:7

They betrayed the Lord;
indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children.
Now the New Moon will devour them
along with their fields.

Matthew 23:34-36

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Leviticus 26:11

I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them, since I am Yahweh their God.

Deuteronomy 32:19

When the Lord saw this, He despised them,
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Psalm 106:40

Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against His people,
and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Jeremiah 12:8

My inheritance has acted toward Me
like a lion in the forest.
She has roared against Me.
Therefore, I hate her.

Jeremiah 14:21

Because of Your name, don’t despise us.
Don’t disdain Your glorious throne.
Remember Your covenant with us;
do not break it.

Hosea 9:15

All their evil appears at Gilgal,
for there I came to hate them.
I will drive them from My house
because of their evil, wicked actions.
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.

Matthew 24:50-51

that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know.

Luke 19:14

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’

John 15:18

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

John 15:23-25

The one who hates Me also hates My Father.

Hebrews 10:38

But My righteous one will live by faith;
and if he draws back,
I have no pleasure in him.

Psalm 5:5

The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;
You hate all evildoers.

Psalm 78:9

The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.

Luke 12:50

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how it consumes Me until it is finished!