These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Zechariah 11
Tanakh 17 verses
- 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, That the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Wail, O cypress-tree, for the cedar is fallen; Because the glorious ones are spoiled; Wail, O ye oaks of , For the strong forest is come down.
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Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, For their is spoiled; Hark! the roaring of young lions, For the thickets of the are spoiled.
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Jeremiah 50:44 Jeremiah 25:34-36 Jeremiah 26:6 Matthew 3:7-10 Zephaniah 3:3 Hosea 10:5 Acts 22:21-22 Matthew 15:14 Ezekiel 24:21-25 James 5:1-6 Zechariah 11:15-17 Zephaniah 3:11 Acts 7:52 Jeremiah 49:19 Zechariah 11:8 Acts 6:11-14 Psalm 22:21 Matthew 21:43-45 Matthew 23:13-38 Romans 11:7-12 Jeremiah 2:15 1 Samuel 4:21-22 Jeremiah 7:4 Amos 8:8 Joel 1:13 Jeremiah 7:11-14 Hosea 1:9-10 Jeremiah 2:30 Isaiah 65:15 Ezekiel 19:3-6 Zephaniah 1:10 - 4 Thus said my : ‘Feed the flock of slaughter;
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whose buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say: Blessed be , for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
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Jeremiah 50:7 Hosea 12:8 Ezekiel 34:10 Matthew 23:13 Deuteronomy 29:19-21 Nehemiah 5:8 1 Timothy 6:5-10 Ezekiel 34:2-4 Micah 3:1-3 John 10:12-13 Ezekiel 22:25-27 2 Kings 4:1 Genesis 37:26-28 Revelation 18:13 Ezekiel 34:21 Matthew 21:12-13 John 10:1 Ezekiel 34:18-19 Ezekiel 34:6 John 16:2 Jeremiah 2:3 Jeremiah 23:1-2 2 Peter 2:3 Micah 3:9-12 -
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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith ; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his ; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.’
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Jeremiah 13:14 Isaiah 9:19-21 Micah 5:8 Matthew 22:7 Psalm 50:22 Hebrews 10:26-31 Luke 12:52-53 Luke 21:16-17 Micah 7:2-7 Isaiah 27:11 Matthew 24:10 Matthew 23:35-38 Haggai 2:22 Zechariah 8:10 Zechariah 14:13 Zechariah 11:5 Matthew 18:33-35 Hebrews 2:3 John 19:15 Matthew 10:21 Hosea 1:6 Zechariah 11:14 Daniel 9:26-27 Malachi 4:6 Ezekiel 8:18 Luke 19:43-44 Matthew 10:34-36 Ezekiel 9:10 Hosea 2:10 Micah 6:14 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Zechariah 11:9 Luke 21:22-24 James 2:13 Isaiah 3:5 -
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So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock.
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- 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; ‘for My became impatient of them, and their also loathed Me.’
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Then said I: ‘I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left eat every one the of another.’
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- 10 And I took my staff Graciousness, and cut it asunder, ‘that I might break My which I had made with all the peoples.’
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And it was broken in that day; and the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew of a that it was the of .
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Zephaniah 3:12 Isaiah 40:31 Romans 11:7-12 Psalm 72:12-14 Deuteronomy 32:21-42 Isaiah 26:8-9 Lamentations 3:25-26 James 2:5-6 Luke 19:48 Luke 23:51 Isaiah 8:17 Psalm 69:33 Micah 7:7 Zechariah 11:6-7 Leviticus 26:38-46 Isaiah 14:32 Luke 2:38 Luke 24:49-53 Deuteronomy 28:49-68 Deuteronomy 31:21 Luke 2:25 Deuteronomy 31:29 James 5:1-6 Acts 1:21-22 Luke 7:22 -
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And I said unto them: ‘If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear.’ So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.
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And said unto me: ‘Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price that I was prized at of them.’ And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the treasury, in the house of .
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- 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between and might be broken.
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And said unto me: ‘Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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- 16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not think of those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are young, nor heal that which is broken; neither will he feed that which standeth still, but he will eat the of the fat, and will break their hoofs in pieces.’
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Woe to the worthless shepherd That leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, And upon his right eye; His arm shall be dried up, And his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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Jeremiah 23:1 Ezekiel 13:3 Ezekiel 34:2 Jeremiah 50:35-37 Isaiah 42:19-20 Jeremiah 23:32 Ezekiel 30:21-24 John 9:39 Amos 8:9-10 1 Samuel 2:31 Micah 3:6-7 1 Corinthians 8:4 Matthew 23:16 Isaiah 6:9-10 Isaiah 29:10 Isaiah 9:15 Romans 11:7 Luke 11:42-52 Jeremiah 22:1 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 Matthew 23:13 Isaiah 44:10 1 Kings 13:4 John 10:12-13 John 12:40 Hosea 4:5-7