Zechariah 11:3

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

² Howl, juniper; for the cedar has fallen; because the majestic trees are devastated. Howl, O oaks of Bashan; for the inaccessible forest has come down. ³ There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed. There is a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is destroyed. ⁴ For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

Jordan

Jeremiah 50:44

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the home of the strong. But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who is a chosen one whom I will appoint over her? For who is like Me? And who will set Me the time? And who is that shepherd who will stand before Me?

Jeremiah 25:34-36

Howl, shepherds, and cry; and roll, leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and of your scatterings are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a desirable vessel.

1 Samuel 4:21-22

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God had been taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Psalm 22:21

Save Me from the lion's mouth; from the wild oxen's horns. You have answered Me.

Isaiah 65:15

And you will leave your name for a curse to My elect; for the Lord Jehovah will kill you, and call His servants by another name.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 7:4

Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are these.

Jeremiah 7:11-14

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I also have seen, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the home of the strong. But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen one I may appoint over it? For who is like Me? And who will summon Me? And who is that shepherd who will stand before Me?

Ezekiel 19:3-6

And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a strong lion and learned to tear the prey. It ate men.

Ezekiel 24:21-25

Speak to the house of Israel. So says the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will defile My sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.

Hosea 1:9-10

And He said, Call his name Not-my-people. For you are not My people, and I will not be for you.

Hosea 10:5

Because of the calves of Beth-aven, the people of Samaria shall dread. For its people shall mourn over it, and its priest rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.

Joel 1:13

Gird up and lament, priests; howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.

Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

Zephaniah 1:10

And it shall be in that day, says Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great crashing from the hills.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.

Zephaniah 3:11

In that day you shall not be ashamed for all your doings in which you have transgressed against Me; for then I will withdraw from your midst those who rejoice in your pride, and you shall never again be proud in My holy mountain.

Zechariah 11:8

I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also despised me.

Zechariah 11:15-17

And Jehovah said to me, Take to yourself yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Matthew 3:7-10

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew 21:43-45

Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing out its fruits.

Matthew 23:13-38

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Acts 6:11-14

And they induced men to be saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

Acts 22:21-22

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

Romans 11:7-12

What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened

James 5:1-6

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.