Zechariah 11:3

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

² Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down. ³ The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste. ⁴ This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

Jordan

Jeremiah 50:44

See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me?

Jeremiah 25:34-36

Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

1 Samuel 4:21-22

And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Psalm 22:21

Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

Isaiah 65:15

And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

Jeremiah 2:30

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

Jeremiah 7:4

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

Jeremiah 7:11-14

Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:6

Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 49:19

See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

Ezekiel 19:3-6

And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

Ezekiel 24:21-25

Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

Hosea 1:9-10

And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Hosea 10:5

The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

Joel 1:13

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

Amos 8:8

Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.

Zephaniah 1:10

And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

Zephaniah 3:11

In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

Zechariah 11:8

And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

Zechariah 11:15-17

And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

Matthew 3:7-10

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 21:43-45

For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

Matthew 23:13-38

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Acts 6:11-14

Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

Acts 22:21-22

And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

Romans 11:7-12

What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

James 5:1-6

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.