Zaccaria 10:3

La Nuova Diodati

"La mia ira divampa contro i pastori e punir i capri, perch lEterno degli eserciti visiter il suo gregge, la casa di Giuda, e ne far come il suo maestoso cavallo in battaglia.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
La mia ira s’è accesa contro i pastori, e io punirò i capri; poiché l’Eterno degli eserciti visita il suo gregge, la casa di Giuda, e ne fa come il suo cavallo d’onore nella battaglia.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
La mia ira si è accesa contro a quei pastori, ed io ho fatta punizione sopra i becchi. Dopo che il Signor degli eserciti ha visitata la sua mandra, la casa di Giuda, egli li ha fatti essere come il suo cavallo di gloria, nella guerra.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

anger: Zechariah 11:5-8, Zechariah 11:17, Isaiah 56:9-12, Jeremiah 10:21, Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 23:2, Jeremiah 50:6, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:7-10

and I: Ezekiel 34:16, Ezekiel 34:17, Ezekiel 34:20, Ezekiel 34:21, Matthew 25:32, Matthew 25:33

punished: Heb. visited upon, Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 24:21, Jeremiah 11:22, Jeremiah 25:12, Zephaniah 1:8, *marg.

visited: Exodus 4:31, Ruth 1:6, Zephaniah 2:7, Luke 1:68, 1 Peter 2:12

as: Proverbs 21:31, Song of Solomon 1:9

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:5 - no wrath Ezekiel 34:5 - because there is no shepherd Ezekiel 34:10 - I am Daniel 11:32 - shall be Micah 5:5 - then Zechariah 1:20 - four Zechariah 9:13 - bent Zechariah 12:3 - in that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds,.... The Targum interprets it of "kings"; as the "goats" of "princes", in the next clause; by whom, according to Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Abarbinel, are meant the kings of Greece; but rather the antichristian kings are designed, the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication with the whore of Rome, which is the cause of the anger of the Lord being kindled: or else ecclesiastical rulers are meant, the Romish clergy, the chief of them, as cardinals, archbishops, bishops, c. who may fitly be represented by the shepherds of Israel in the times of the prophets for their name, professing to be of Israel, or to be Christians and by them for their ignorance, covetousness, luxury, disregard to the flock, tyranny and cruelty over it, and murder of it; see Isaiah 56:10, against these the fire of God's wrath will be kindled, and with it will they be destroyed:

and I punished the goats; not the Seleucidae, as the above Jewish writers; though they may with propriety be so called, since they were the successors of Alexander, signified by the he goat in Daniel 8:5 rather the monks and friars, comparable to these for their filthiness and uncleanness; and because they pretend to be guides of the people, and to go before them, and yet use them ill, and push them with their horns of power; wherefore God will punish them, and kill those children of Jezebel with death, Revelation 2:22:

for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock, the house of Judah; by sending the Gospel to them, and his Spirit with it, to make it effectual to their conversion; which will be at the time that the antichristian hierarchy will be destroyed; then the Lord's flock, who have gone astray, shall be returned to the true Shepherd and Bishop of souls, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their King, and shall be saved by him: a gracious visitation this will be!

and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle; this denotes that the Jews, when converted, will be bold in their God; valiant for the truth on earth; courageously fight the good fight of faith, and be victorious over their enemies; and that they will be in great honour and esteem among the saints, though so mean and justly despicable now: the sense is, that as the horse shows its strength and courage in battle, so should they; see Job 39:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds - As Ezekiel continued, “Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand” Ezekiel 34:10.

I punished the he-goats - The evil powerful are called the “he-goats of the earth: Isaiah 14:9; and in Ezekiel God says, “I will judge between cattle and cattle, between rams and he-goats” Ezekiel 34:17; and our Lord speaks of the reprobate as goats, the saved as sheep Matthew 25:32. God “visited upon these in His displeasure, “because” He “visited His flock, the people of Judah,” to see to their needs and to relieve them.

And hath made them as the goodly horse - As, before, He said, “I made thee as the sword of a mighty man” Zechariah 9:13 Judah’s might was not in himself; but, in God’s hands, he had might like and above the might of this world; he was fearless, resistless; as Paul says, “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds” 2 Corinthians 10:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 10:3. Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds — Bad kings and bad priests. I will punish the goats; these were the wicked priests, who were shepherds by their office, and goats by the impurity of their lives.

As his goodly horse in the battle. — The honourable war horse, or the horse that carried the general's equipage. In the unaccountable variation of interpreters on these chapters, this, among other things, is thought to be spoken of Matthias, and Judas Maccabeus, who assembled the people from all quarters, as a shepherd gathers his sheep together; and led them against the sons of Greece, the Seleucidae Greeks. Others refer every thing here to times before the captivity.