Zechariah 11:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

So, etc

That waited

Knew

General references

Luke 12:51

Bible References

So, etc

So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called

Favor and the other I called

Union; so I pastured the flock.

For the Lord hears the needy
And does not despise His who are prisoners.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

“How then will one answer the messengers of the nation?
That the Lord has founded Zion,
And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.”

“But I will leave among you
A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.

And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

That waited

And I will wait for the Lord

who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Lord,
We have waited for You eagerly;

Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will

mount up with wings like eagles,

They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.

But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation.
My God will hear me.

And there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

(he had not consented to their plan and action), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God;

Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us—

Knew

For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another’s power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.”

But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.

“The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

Then it shall come about, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants); for I know their intent which they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their

idols.

So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

General references

Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;