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 fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.

For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

What will one answer the kings of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD.

Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

They could not find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

That waited

I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Yes, in the path of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

At that time there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

"Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Knew

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;

It shall happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

And look, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he did not obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

General references

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.