The Doomed Flock
Open your doors, O Lebanon, Jer 22:23Jer 22:6-7Luk 21:23-24Deu 32:22Hab 2:17Hab 2:8Hag 1:8Luk 19:41-44
that the fire may consume your cedars!
Wail, O cypress, 1 for the cedar has fallen; Luk 23:31Amo 6:1Ezk 20:46Ezk 31:17Ezk 31:2-3Isa 10:33-34Isa 2:12-17Isa 32:15-19
the majestic trees are ruined!
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
for the dense forest has been cut down!
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, Jer 50:44Jer 25:34-361Sa 4:21-22Act 22:21-22Act 6:11-14Act 7:52Amo 8:8Ezk 19:3-6
for their glory is in ruins.
Listen to the roaring of the young lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, Zec 11:7Mat 23:37Rom 15:8Eph 1:3Ezk 34:23-24Isa 40:9-11Isa 49:4-5Jhn 20:17 whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them. Jer 50:71Ti 6:5-10Hos 12:82Ki 4:12Pe 2:3Deu 29:19-21Ezk 22:25-27Ezk 34:10
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.” Jer 13:14Heb 10:26-31Isa 9:19-21Mat 22:7Mic 5:8Psa 50:221Th 2:16Dan 9:26-27
So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock. Isa 11:4Zec 11:14Zec 11:4Ezk 37:16-23Eph 2:13-16Isa 61:1Psa 23:4Zec 11:10-11 And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. Jhn 15:18Jhn 7:7Isa 49:7Mat 23:34-36Hos 5:7Jhn 15:23-25Luk 19:14Deu 32:19
My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me. Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.” Jer 43:11Mat 13:10-11Rev 22:11Act 13:46-47Act 28:26-28Deu 28:53-56Ezk 5:10Isa 9:19-21
Thirty Pieces of Silver
(Matthew 27:3–10)
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, 2 revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. Zec 11:7Psa 89:39Heb 8:8-13Jer 14:21Jer 31:31-321Sa 2:30Heb 7:17-22Luk 21:5-6 It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD. Isa 40:31Jas 2:5-6Lam 3:25-26Zep 3:12Act 1:21-22Deu 28:49-68Deu 31:21Deu 31:29
Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. Mat 26:15Exo 21:32Luk 22:3-6Mrk 14:10-11Jhn 13:27-30Gen 37:281Ki 21:2Jhn 13:2
And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. Mat 27:3-10Act 1:18-19Isa 53:2-3Act 4:11Isa 54:7-10Mat 27:12
Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. Isa 9:21Jas 3:16Act 23:7-10Ezk 37:16-20Gal 5:15Isa 11:13Jas 3:14Jas 4:1-3
And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. Ezk 13:3Isa 6:10-12Jer 2:26-27Lam 2:14Luk 11:40Mat 15:14Mat 23:17 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. Ezk 34:2-6Jer 23:2Jhn 10:1Jhn 10:12-13Luk 12:45-46Mat 23:13-291Sa 17:34-35Ezk 34:10
Woe to the worthless shepherd, Jer 23:1Ezk 13:31Co 8:4Ezk 34:2Isa 42:19-20Mat 23:161Co 10:19-20Amo 8:9-10
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!”