Zechariah 11:17

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

¹⁶ For, behold, I raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that are lost, neither shall seek the young one nor heal the one that is broken nor carry the one that is tired, but he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hoofs in pieces. ¹⁷ “Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be blind.”

Be Clean

Jeremiah 23:1

Woe be unto the pastors that waste and scatter the sheep of my pasture! said the LORD.

Isaiah 42:19-20

Who is blind, but my slave? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the slave of the LORD,

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold, I am against those that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and did tell them, and caused my people to err by their lies, and by their flattery; yet I did not send them, nor command them; and they did not profit this people at all, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:35-37

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

Ezekiel 13:3

thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say unto the pastors, Thus hath the Lord GOD said; Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

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 when King Jeroboam heard the word of the man of God, who had cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

Isaiah 6:9-10

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

Isaiah 9:15

The ancient and venerable to look upon is the head; the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 29:10

For the LORD has extended upon you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, he has covered the seers with sleep.

Isaiah 44:10

Who has formed God? And who cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Jeremiah 22:1

Thus hath the LORD said: 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, behold, it has not been bound up with medicine, to bind it that it might be made whole, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Hosea 4:5-7

Therefore thou shalt fall in the day, and the prophet shall also fall with thee by night, and I will cut off thy mother.

Amos 8:9-10

And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will cover the earth with darkness in the clear day;

Micah 3:6-7

Therefore the vision shall be made night unto you, and darkness unto those that divine, and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Matthew 23:13

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:16

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Luke 11:42-52

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over the judgment and the charity of God; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see and that those who see might be blinded.

John 10:12-13

But the hireling, who is not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, 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 hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks after; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded

1 Corinthians 8:4

As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What do I say then? that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?