Zechariah 11:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:4

Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

Isaiah 44:10

Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

Isaiah 9:15

The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Jeremiah 22:1

This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,

Jeremiah 23:1

A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:32

See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:3

This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?

Zechariah 10:2

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

Zechariah 11:15

And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

Matthew 23:13

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Matthew 23:16

You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

John 12:40

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

Romans 11:7

What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Samuel 2:31

See, the days are coming when your arm and the arm of your father's people will be cut off;