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Zechariah 11:8

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

World English Bible

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

American Standard Version

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Geneva Bible 1599

Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule abhorred me.

Darby Translation

And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed me.

Young's Literal Translation

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.

Bible in Basic English

And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

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Cross references

“in”

Matthew 23:34–36 Hosea 5:7 Matthew 24:50 Matthew 24:51

Matthew 23:34–36 · BSB

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

Hosea 5:7 · BSB

They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

Matthew 24:50 · BSB

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

Matthew 24:51 · BSB

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“and my”

Leviticus 26:11 Leviticus 26:30 Leviticus 26:44 Deuteronomy 32:19 Psalm 106:40 Jeremiah 12:8

Leviticus 26:11 · BSB

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

Leviticus 26:30 · BSB

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Leviticus 26:44 · BSB

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

Deuteronomy 32:19 · BSB

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Psalm 106:40 · BSB

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Jeremiah 12:8 · BSB

My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

“lothed them”

John 7:7 John 15:18 Isaiah 49:7 Luke 19:14 John 15:23–25 Luke 12:50

John 7:7 · BSB

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

John 15:18 · BSB

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

Isaiah 49:7 · BSB

Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is…

Luke 19:14 · BSB

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

John 15:23–25 · BSB

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

Luke 12:50 · BSB

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7So 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.

9Then 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.”

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