Zechariah 13:7

YLT

Zechariah 13:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

O sword

My shepherd

Smite

The sheep

Matthew 26:31

Mark 14:27

John 16:32

I will turn

General references

Matthew 26:54

Luke 9:22

Luke 24:26

Bible References

O sword

If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.

Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.

Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north.

My shepherd

Thus said Jehovah my God: 'Feed the flock of the slaughter,

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.

And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,

And My servant David is king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.

And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,

and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

Smite

Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

'Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

The sheep

then saith Jesus to them, 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night; for it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad;

and Jesus saith to them -- 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

I will turn

And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock.

and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

Beware! -- ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

'Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Jesus answered, 'I said to you that I am he; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

General references

how then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it behoveth to happen?'

saying -- 'It behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.'

Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'