Zechariah 11:8

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In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.

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  • Isa 49:7 : 7 This is what the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: To the one despised and abhorred by the nations, to the servant of rulers: Kings will see you and stand to attention, and princes will bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
  • Hos 5:7 : 7 They have been unfaithful to the Lord; they have had illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them along with their fields.
  • Matt 23:34-36 : 34 Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
  • John 7:7 : 7 'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'
  • John 15:18 : 18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
  • John 15:23-25 : 23 Whoever hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, My soul will have no pleasure in him.
  • Matt 24:50-51 : 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Ps 106:40 : 40 Therefore, the LORD's anger burned against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We don’t want this man to reign over us.'
  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
  • Jer 12:8 : 8 My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest; she roars against me, therefore I hate her.
  • Jer 14:21 : 21 For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
  • Lev 26:11 : 11 I will set my dwelling among you, and my soul will not reject you.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.
  • Lev 26:44 : 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters.
  • Ps 5:5 : 5 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with You.
  • Ps 78:9 : 9 The sons of Ephraim, armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle.
  • Luke 12:50 : 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 11:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9Then I said, 'I will not shepherd you any longer. Let the dying die, and let the perishing perish. Let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.'

    10So I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

    11So it was broken on that day, and the oppressed of the flock who were watching me understood that this was the word of the LORD.

  • Zech 11:3-7
    5 verses
    80%

    3Listen! The wailing of the shepherds, because their glory is ruined. Listen! The roar of the lions, for the pride of the Jordan is devastated.

    4This is what the LORD my God says: ‘Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.’

    5Their buyers slaughter them without remorse, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds show no pity on them.

    6For I will no longer show pity to the people of the land,' declares the LORD. 'I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.'

    7So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs—one I called Favor and the other Union—and I shepherded the flock.

  • Zech 11:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the bond of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

    15The LORD said to me, 'Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

    16For behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those being destroyed, seek the young, heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.'

    17Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm wither completely, and his right eye become totally blind.

  • Ezek 34:5-11
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    73%

    5So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild animals; they were scattered.

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

    8'As surely as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'because My flock has become prey and My flock has become food for every wild animal since there was no shepherd and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,

    9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.

    10This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My flock from their hand and stop them from shepherding My flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths, so it will no longer be food for them.'

    11For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and look after them.

  • Zech 13:7
    71%

    7Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My companion, declares the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

  • Jer 23:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, declares the LORD.

    2Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the shepherds who tend My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I am about to punish you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 34:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, the shepherds: This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

    3You eat the fat, wear the wool, and slaughter the fattened animals, but you do not feed the flock.

  • Jer 25:34-36
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    70%

    34Weep and wail, you shepherds, cry out! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock, for your time to be slaughtered has come. You will fall like a precious vessel.

    35The shepherds will have no refuge, and the leaders of the flock will find no escape.

    36Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

  • Ezek 34:19-20
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    70%

    19Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

    20Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says to them: Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

  • Isa 1:14
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    14Your New Moons and appointed festivals My soul hates. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

  • Zech 10:3
    69%

    3My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts cares for His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like a splendid warhorse.

  • Job 6:7
    69%

    7My soul refuses to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.

  • Ezek 34:15-17
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    69%

    15I Myself will tend My flock and cause them to lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

    16I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the injured, and strengthen the weak. But the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will shepherd them with justice.

    17As for you, My flock, this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

  • Lev 26:30
    69%

    30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

  • Jer 12:10
    69%

    10Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

  • Ezek 34:22
    68%

    22I will save My flock so they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

  • Lam 1:19
    68%

    19I called to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while searching for food to revive their strength.

  • Mic 3:3
    68%

    3You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

  • Jer 12:8
    68%

    8My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest; she roars against me, therefore I hate her.

  • Job 30:1
    67%

    1But now, those younger than I mock me—people whose fathers I would have refused to place with my sheepdogs.

  • Hos 13:8
    67%

    8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear their hearts open. There I will devour them like a lion; a wild beast will rip them apart.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Amos 6:8
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    8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Hosts: 'I detest the pride of Jacob and hate his fortresses, so I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.'

  • Jer 23:4
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    4I will appoint shepherds over them who will care for them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares the LORD.

  • Jer 12:3
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    3But you, LORD, know me; you see me and test my heart toward you. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter and set them apart for the day of killing.

  • Jer 11:19
    67%

    19I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not realize they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will never be remembered again.’

  • Hos 9:15
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    15All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

  • Isa 38:12
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    12My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.