Zechariah 11:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished.  Those who sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord because I have become rich!” Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 50:7

Whoever found them devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We’re not guilty; instead, they have sinned against the  Lord, their righteous grazing land, the hope of their ancestors,  the  Lord.’

Hosea 12:8

But Ephraim thinks, ‘How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for! ’

2 Peter 2:3

They will exploit  you in their greed  with made-up stories. Their condemnation,  pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

John 16:2

They will ban you from the synagogues.   In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service   to God.

Matthew 23:13

‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,

Ezekiel 34:21

Since you have pushed with flank and shoulder and butted all the weak ones with your horns until you scattered them all over,

Ezekiel 34:10

‘ “This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against the shepherds.  I will demand my flock from them  and prevent them from shepherding the flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue my flock from their mouths so that they will not be food for them.

Ezekiel 34:6

My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill.  My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and there was no one searching or seeking for them.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the  Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it found themselves guilty; disaster came on them.’ This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Nehemiah 5:8

and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’  They remained silent and could not say a word.

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’

Revelation 18:13

cinnamon, spice,  incense, myrrh,  and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves #– #human lives.

John 10:1

‘Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, “I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,”   and you don’t realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Hosea 12:9

I have been the Lord your God ever since  the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival days.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.