Zaccaria 11:9

La Nuova Diodati

Allora dissi: "Non vi pascer pi: chi sta per morire muoia, e chi sta per perire perisca; quelle poi che rimangono si divorino a vicenda".

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
E io dissi: "Non vi pascerò più; la moribonda muoia, quella che sta per perire perisca, e quelle che restano, divorino l’una la carne dell’altra".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed io dissi: Io non vi pasturerò più; quella che muore muoia, quella che perisce perisca, e quelle che rimangono mangino la carne l’una dell’altra.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Jeremiah 23:33, Jeremiah 23:39, Matthew 13:10, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 21:43, Matthew 23:38, Matthew 23:39, John 8:21, John 8:24, John 12:35, Acts 13:46, Acts 13:47, Acts 28:26-28

that that dieth: Psalms 69:22-28, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:3, Jeremiah 43:11, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 21:19, Revelation 22:11

and let: Deuteronomy 28:53-56, Isaiah 9:19-21, Jeremiah 19:9, Ezekiel 5:10

another: Heb. his fellow, or, neighbour

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 6:8 - lest Jeremiah 7:29 - for Jeremiah 14:19 - hath Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Zechariah 11:6 - deliver Zechariah 11:14 - I cut Matthew 24:21 - General Mark 8:13 - General Revelation 3:16 - I will spue thee out

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said I, I will not feed you,.... That is, any longer; either personally, or by his apostles; he fed them himself, during his public ministry; and afterwards by his apostles, whom he ordered to preach the Gospel to the Jews first; but that being contradicted, blasphemed, and despised by them, they were ordered to turn away from them, and go to the Gentiles: this shows that not the shepherds only, but the body of the people, abhorred Christ and his Gospel: and therefore it was taken away from them:

that that dieth, let it die; literally, by the pestilence, that going by the name of death in Scripture; and spiritually, they that are dead in sin, let them continue so; let them die through famine of the word they have despised; let them die in their sins, and die the second death, they justly deserve:

and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; literally, by the sword; spiritually, the meaning is, that whereas some were in righteous judgment appointed to ruin, vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; let them be left to themselves, to a judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, and be cut off as unfruitful branches, and be no more in a church state here, and hereafter cast into everlasting burnings:

and let the rest eat everyone the flesh of another; through famine; or destroy each other in their internal divisions, which was the case of the Jews, when Jerusalem was besieged; see Galatians 5:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I said, I will not feed you - God, at last, leaves the rebellious soul or people to itself, as He says by Moses, “Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and will hide My Face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall find them” Deuteronomy 31:17 : and our Lord tells the captious Jews; “I go My way, and ye shall seek Me and shall die in your sins” John 8:21.

That which dieth, let it die - Zechariah seems to condense, but to repeat the abandonment in Jeremiah; “Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth. And it shall be, if they shall say unto thee, Where shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity” ^o. First, God gives over to death without violence, by famine or pestilence, those whose lot it should be; another portion to violent death by the sword; “that which is cut off shall be cut off; and the rest,” the flock of slaughter, would be turned into wolves; and, as in the awful and horrible siege of Jerusalem, those who had escaped these deaths, “the left-over, shall eat every one of the flesh of his neighbor,” every law of humanity and of nature broken. Osorius: “So should they understand at last, how evil and bitter a thing it is for all who lived by My help to be despoiled of that help?”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 11:9. I will not feed you — I shall instruct you no longer: some of you are appointed to death by famine; others, to be cut off by the sword; and others of you, to such desparation that ye shall destroy one another.