Zechariah 11:3

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Contextual Overview

¹Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars. ²Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down! ³Listen to the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the howl of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

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a voice: Zechariah 11:8, Zechariah 11:15-17, Jeremiah 25:34-36, Joel 1:13, Amos 8:8, Zephaniah 1:10, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 23:13-33, James 5:1-6

for their: 1 Samuel 4:21, 1 Samuel 4:22, Isaiah 65:15, Jeremiah 7:4, Jeremiah 7:11-14, Jeremiah 26:6, Ezekiel 24:21-25, Hosea 1:9, Hosea 1:10, Hosea 10:5, Zephaniah 3:11, Matthew 3:7-10, Matthew 21:43-45, Acts 6:11-14, Acts 22:21, Acts 22:22, Romans 11:7-12

a voice: Psalms 22:21, Jeremiah 2:30, Ezekiel 19:3-6, Zephaniah 3:3, Matthew 23:31-38, Acts 7:52

for the pride: Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 50:44

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:9 - secretly Isaiah 5:29 - roaring Jeremiah 51:38 - roar Ezekiel 19:2 - young lions Ezekiel 30:9 - great Ezekiel 38:13 - with Zephaniah 1:11 - Howl John 10:2 - the shepherd 1 Peter 5:8 - as Revelation 18:9 - shall bewail

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."

Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:7
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."

Genesis 11:18
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Exodus 1:14
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

2 Samuel 12:31
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. "Who will see them?" they say.

Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds,.... Which may be understood either of the civil rulers among the Jews, who now lose their honour and their riches; and so the Targum, Jarchi, and Aben Ezra, interpret it of kings; or of the ecclesiastical rulers, the elders of the people, the Scribes and Pharisees:

for their glory is spoiled; their power and authority; their riches and wealth; their places of honour and profit; their offices, posts, and employments, whether in civil or religious matters, are taken from them, and they are deprived of them:

a voice of the roaring of young lions; of princes, comparable to them for their power, tyranny, and cruelty: the Targum is,

"their roaring is as the roaring of young lions:''

for the pride of Jordan is spoiled; a place where lions and their young ones resorted, as Jarchi observes; :-. Jordan is here put for the whole land of Judea now wasted, and so its pride and glory gone; as if the waters of Jordan were dried up, the pride and glory of that, and which it showed when its waters swelled and overflowed; hence called by Pliny x "ambitiosus amnis", a haughty and ambitious swelling river.

x Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A voice of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled - It echoes on from Jeremiah before the captivity, “Howl, ye shepherds - A voice of the cry of the shepherds. and an howling of the principal of the flock; for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture” Jeremiah 25:34, Jeremiah 25:36. There is one chorus of desolation, the mighty and the lowly; the shepherds and the young lions; what is at other times opposed is joined in one wailing. “The pride of Jordan” are the stately oaks on its banks, which shroud it from sight, until you reach its edges, and which, after the captivity of the ten tribes, became the haunt of lions and their chief abode in Palestine, “on account of the burning heat, and the nearness of the desert, and the breadth of the vast solitude and jungles” (Jerome). See Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; 2 Kings 17:25. The lion lingered there even to the close of the 12th cent. Phocas in Reland Palaest. i. 274. Cyril says in the present, “there are very many lions there, roaring horribly and striking fear into the inhabitants”).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 11:3. Young lions — Princes and rulers. By shepherds, kings or priests may be intended.