the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
Contemporary English Version
Zechariah 11:4
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- FaussetEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
The Lord my God says this: “Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.
Thus says the LORD my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
Thus saith the Lord my God; Feede the flocke of the slaughter;
Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
Thus said the Lord my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
This is what the LORD my God says: "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.
This is what the Lord my God says: "Feed the flock that are about to be killed.
Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock doomed for slaughter,
Thus sayeth the Lorde my God, Feede the sheepe of the slaughter.
Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.
Thus says Yahweh my God, "Shepherd the flock doomed to slaughter.
This is what the LORD my God says: "Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
Adonai my God says this: "Shepherd the flock for slaughter.
Thus saith Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,
The Lord my God says, "Care for the sheep that have been raised to be killed.
Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the lean flock
The Lord my God said to me, "Act the part of the shepherd of a flock of sheep that are going to be butchered.
Thus says Yahweh my God: "Shepherd the flock doomed to slaughter.
For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.
Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;
Thus said the LORD my God: 'Feed the flock of slaughter;
Thus saith the Lorde my God: Feede the sheepe of the slaughter,
Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Feed the sheep of the slaughter;
Thus said the LORD my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
My Lord God seith these thingis, Fede thou beestis of slauyter,
Thus Yahweh my God said: Feed the flock of slaughter;
Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
The Lord my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.
Thus says the LORD my God, "Feed the flock for slaughter,
This is what the Lord my God says: "Go and care for the flock that is intended for slaughter.
The Lord my God said, "Take care of the flock that is to be killed.
Thus said the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
Thus, saith Yahweh my God, - Tend thou the flock doomed to slaughter:
Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,
Thus said the LORD my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter,
Thus sayeth the LORDE my God: Fede the shepe of ye slaughter,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lord: Zechariah 14:5, Isaiah 49:4, Isaiah 49:5, John 20:17, Ephesians 1:3
Feed: Zechariah 11:7, Isaiah 40:9-11, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 34:24, Micah 5:4, Matthew 15:24, Matthew 23:37, Luke 19:41-44, John 21:15-17, Romans 15:8
Reciprocal: Psalms 78:71 - feed Jeremiah 50:6 - their shepherds Micah 3:2 - pluck Zechariah 13:7 - my shepherd John 10:1 - the same John 10:8 - came Acts 20:28 - to feed
Cross-References
The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.
So the people had to stop building the city, because the Lord confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babel got its name.
Arpachshad had more children and died at the age of four hundred thirty-eight.
We are afraid, because the men who explored the land told us that the cities are large, with walls that reach to the sky. The people who live there are taller and stronger than we are, and some of them are Anakim. We have nowhere to go."
Only a few of you will survive, and the Lord will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations.
Moses said: Israel, listen to me! You will soon cross the Jordan River and go into the land to force out the nations that live there. They are more powerful than you are, and the walls around their cities reach to the sky.
David fought the Edomite army in Salt Valley and killed eighteen thousand of their soldiers. When he returned, he built a monument.
and your hateful enemies will be scattered and then destroyed.
Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.
It grew stronger and higher, until it reached to heaven and could be seen from anywhere on earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus saith the Lord my God,.... The Syriac version adds, "to me"; not the Prophet Zechariah, but the Messiah, who calls the Lord his God, as he was man and Mediator, John 20:17 for what follow are the words of God the Father to him, calling upon him, and giving him a commission to
Feed the flock of the slaughter; meaning the people of the Jews in general, to whom Christ was sent as a prophet, to teach and instruct them by the ministry of the word; so "feeding" is interpreted of prophesying, by the Targum and Jarchi: and these are called "the flock of slaughter", because of the cruel usage they met with from their shepherds and owners, mentioned in the next verse Zechariah 11:5; and because they were appointed and given up to ruin and destruction of God, on account of their sins and transgressions; though there was a remnant among them, a little flock, afterwards in this chapter called the poor of the flock Zechariah 11:7, who were the special care of Christ, and were fed by him in a spiritual manner; and may go by this name, because exposed to the cruelties of men, and are accounted as sheep for the slaughter, Romans 8:36 these Christ was called upon by his Father in the council of peace to take care of, which he did; and in the everlasting covenant of grace he agreed to feed them; and in the fulness of time he was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, who were as sheep without a shepherd; and he fed them with knowledge and with understanding.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thus saith the Lord my God, Feed the flock of the slaughter - The fulfillment of the whole prophecy shows, that the person addressed is the prophet, not in, or for himself, but (as belongs to symbolic prophecy) as representing Another, our Lord. It is addressed, in the first instance, to Zechariah. For Zechariah is bidden, “take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd” Zechariah 11:15, in words addressed to himself, personally; “And the Lord said unto me.” But he who was to represent the foolish shepherd, had represented the True Shepherd, since it is said to him, “Take unto thee yet.” But He, the Shepherd addressed, who does the acts commanded, speaks with the authority of God. He says, “I cut off three shepherds in one month” Zechariah 11:8; “I broke My covenant which I had made with all the peoples” Zechariah 11:10; “the poor of the flock waited upon Me” Zechariah 11:11; “I cut asunder Mine other staff, Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel” Zechariah 11:14. But in Zechariah’s time, no three shepherds were cut off, the covenant made by God was not broken on His part, there was no such visible distinction between those who waited on God, and those who, outwardly too, rejected Him.
Feed the flock of the slaughter - Those who were, even before the end, slain by their evil shepherds whom they followed, and who in the end would be given to the slaughter, as the Psalmist says, “we are counted as sheep for the slaughter” Psalms 44:22, because they would not hear the voice of the True Shepherd, and were not His sheep. They were already, by God’s judgment, a prey to evil shepherds; and would be so yet more hereafter. As a whole then, they were “sheep of the slaughter.” It is a last Charge given to feed them. As our Lord says, “Last of all, He sent unto them His Son, saying, They will reverence My Son” Matthew 21:37. This failing, nothing remained but that the flock would be given up, as they themselves say, “He will miserably destroy those wicked people, and will let out His vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render Him the fruits in their seasons” Matthew 21:41, that is, our Lord explains it, “The kingdom of heaven shall be taken from them, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Yet a remnant should be saved” Matthew 21:43, for whose sake the larger flock was still to be fed: and, as our Lord, as Man, wept over Jerusalem, whose sentence He pronounced, so He still feeds those who would not turn to Him that they might be saved, and who would in the end be “a flock of slaughter,” “Death their shepherd” Psalms 49:14, since they chose death rather than Life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 11:4. Feed the flock of the slaughter — This people resemble a flock of sheep fattened for the shambles; feed, instruct, this people who are about to be slaughtered.
