Zechariah 11:11

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

¹⁰ And I take My staff Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to make void My covenant that I had made with all the peoples: ¹¹ and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it is a word of Jehovah. ¹² And I say unto them: 'If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;' and they weigh out my hire -- thirty silverlings.

From the Lord

In that Day

My Covenant

On that Day

Word of the Lord

Jehovah

Zephaniah 3:12

And I have left in thy midst a people humble and poor, And they have trusted in the name of Jehovah.

Leviticus 26:38-46

and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you.

Deuteronomy 28:49-68

'Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,

Deuteronomy 31:21

'And it hath been, when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified to its face for a witness; for it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing to-day, before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn.'

Deuteronomy 31:29

for I have known that after my death ye do very corruptly, and have turned aside out of the way which I commanded you, and evil hath met you in the latter end of the days, because ye do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry with the work of your hands.'

Deuteronomy 32:21-42

They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

Psalm 69:33

For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.

Psalm 72:12-14

For he delivereth the needy who crieth, And the poor when he hath no helper,

Isaiah 8:17

And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

Isaiah 14:32

And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? 'That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'

Isaiah 26:8-9

Also, in the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance Is the desire of the soul.

Isaiah 40:31

But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

Lamentations 3:25-26

Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him.

Micah 7:7

And I -- in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God.

Zechariah 11:6-7

For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.'

Luke 2:25

And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

Luke 2:38

and she, at that hour, having come in, was confessing, likewise, to the Lord, and was speaking concerning him, to all those looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

Luke 7:22

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Having gone on, report to John what ye saw and heard, that blind men do see again, lame do walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf do hear, dead are raised, poor have good news proclaimed;

Luke 19:48

and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

Luke 23:51

-- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,

Luke 24:49-53

And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'

Acts 1:21-22

'It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

Romans 11:7-12

What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

James 2:5-6

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

James 5:1-6

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;