Zechariah 11:17

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Zechariah 11:15–17 · Berean Standard Bible

15 And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

17 Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

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Jeremiah 22:1

This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,

Ezekiel 13:3

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

Ezekiel 34:2

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Matthew 23:16

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

Luke 11:42

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

Luke 11:43

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

Luke 11:45

One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

Luke 11:46

“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “You weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.

Luke 11:47

Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

Luke 11:48

So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

Luke 11:49

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

Luke 11:50

As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.

Luke 11:52

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

Isaiah 9:15

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

Isaiah 44:10

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

Jeremiah 23:32

“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 10:19

Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

1 Corinthians 10:20

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

John 10:12

The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.

John 10:13

The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

Isaiah 6:9

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Isaiah 6:10

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Isaiah 29:10

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

Isaiah 42:19

Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

Isaiah 42:20

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.

Jeremiah 50:37

A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Hosea 4:7

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

Amos 8:9

And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

Micah 3:6

Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

Micah 3:7

Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”

John 9:39

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Romans 11:7

What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.

1 Kings 13:4

Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

Ezekiel 30:22

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

Ezekiel 30:23

I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Ezekiel 30:24

I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.