Zechariah 11:17

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

¹⁶ For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound, but he will eat the flesh of the fat, ¹⁷ Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm shall be entirely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

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Jeremiah 23:1

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says LORD.

Isaiah 42:19-20

Who is blind, but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace [with me], and blind as LORD's servant?

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says LORD, and tell them. And cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting. Yet I sent them not, nor commanded them, neither do they profit this people at al

Jeremiah 50:35-37

A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her rulers, and upon her wise men.

Ezekiel 13:3

Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.

1 Kings 13:4

And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against h

Isaiah 6:9-10

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 9:15

The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 29:10

For LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. The prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

Isaiah 44:10

Who has fashioned a god, or molded an image that is profitable for nothing?

Jeremiah 22:1

Thus said LORD: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

Ezekiel 30:21-24

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And, lo, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.

Hosea 4:5-7

And thou shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night. And I will destroy thy mother.

Amos 8:9-10

And it shall come to pass in that day, says lord LORD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

Micah 3:6-7

Therefore it shall be night to you, that ye shall have no vision. And it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine. And the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Matthew 23:16

Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever may swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.

Luke 11:42-52

But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those not seeing might see, and those who see might become blind.

John 10:12-13

But the hired man, and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

John 12:40

He has blinded their eyes, and has hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be turned, and I would heal them.

Romans 11:7

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain. But the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened,

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What therefore do I say, that an idol is anything, or that a sacrifice to an idol is anything?