Zechariah 11:17

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

¹⁶ For behold, I raise up a shepherd in the land, he shall not review those being concealed; the youth he shall not seek, and he shall not heal the broken, and he shall not nourish the standing firmly: and he shall eat the flesh of the fading, and he shall break their hoofs. ¹⁷ Wo! to the empty shepherd forsaking the sheep; the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: and his arm being dried up, shall be dried up, and his right eye being dim, shall be dim.

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Jeremiah 23:1

Wo to the shepherds destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture! says Jehovah.

Isaiah 42:19-20

Who blind but my servant? and deaf as my messenger I shall send? who blind he being perfect? and blind as the servant of Jehovah?

Jeremiah 23:32

Behold me against them prophesying dreams of falsehood, says Jehovah, and they will recount them, and will cause my people to wander by their falsehoods and by their boasting; and I sent them not, and I commanded them not; and helping, they shall be of no profit to this people, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 50:35-37

A sword upon the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, and to the inhabitants of Babel and to her chiefs, and to her wise.

Ezekiel 13:3

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo upon the foolish prophets which are going after their spirit, and they saw not

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo! to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves: shall not the shepherds feed the sheep?

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the days coming and I cut off thy seed and the seed of thy father's house from being old in thy house.

1 Kings 13:4

And it will be when the king heard the word of the man of God which he called upon the altar in the house of God; and Jeroboam will stretch forth his hand from above the altar, saving, Seize him. And his hand which he stretched forth upon him will be dried up, and he will not be able to turn it back to him.

Isaiah 6:9-10

And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know.

Isaiah 9:15

The old man and they lifting up faces, he the head; and the prophet teaching falsehood, be the tail.

Isaiah 29:10

For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.

Isaiah 44:10

Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

Jeremiah 22:1

Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word,

Ezekiel 30:21-24

Son of man, I broke the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and behold, it not bound up to give healing, to put in bandages to bind it, to make it strong to hold upon the sword.

Hosea 4:5-7

And thou wert weak in the day, and the prophet also was weak with thee by night, and I destroyed thy mother.

Amos 8:9-10

And it was in that day, says the Lord Jehovah, I caused the sun to set at noon, and I darkened the light to the earth in that day:

Micah 3:6-7

For this, night to you from a vision, and darkness to you from divining; and the sun went down upon the prophets, and the day was dark upon them.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

Matthew 23:16

Woe to you blind guides, saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is indebted!

Luke 11:42-52

But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they not seeing might see; and they seeing might be blind.

John 10:12-13

But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.

John 12:40

He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart: lest they see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and should turn back, and I should heal them.

Romans 11:7

What then What Israel seeks for, this be attained not; but the selection attained, and the rest were hardened.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What do I say therefore? that an idol is any thing? or that what is sacrificed to an idol is any thing?