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Zechariah 11:3

Jordan
Judgment

1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

2 Wail, 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!

Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.

4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,

5 whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
KJV
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
WEB
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed—a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
ASV
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.
DARBY
A voice of howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
BLB
A voice of wailing [is] among the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins a voice of the roaring of lions, for the height of the Jordan has been devastated.
ÅB
Hør hvor hyrdene jamrer fordi deres herlighet[^1] er ødelagt! Hør hvor de unge løver brøler fordi Jordans prakt[^2] er ødelagt.
OTB
Hør hyrdenes klage,
for deres herlige beitemarker er ødelagt!
Lytt til de unge løvenes brøl,
for Jordans stolthet er ødelagt!
B1930
Hør hvor hyrdene jamrer fordi deres herlighet er ødelagt! Hør hvor de unge løver brøler fordi Jordans prakt er ødelagt. / < herlige beitemark; JER 25, 36.> / < JER 12, 5.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 50:44

    Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

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  • Jeremiah 25:34–36

    Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

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  • 1 Samuel 4:21–22

    And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.

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  • Jeremiah 26:6

    then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”

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  • Hosea 10:5

    The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.

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  • Acts 6:11–14

    Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

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  • Romans 11:7–12

    What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,

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  • Amos 8:8

    Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

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