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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Zechariah 11:16 - 11:16
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in the land - Antichrist will probably he a Jew, or at least one in Judea.
not visit ... neither ... seek ... heal ... broken, nor feed ... but ... eat ... flesh ... tear - Compare similar language as to the unfaithful shepherds of Israel in Eze 34:2-4. This implies, they shall be paid in kind. Such a shepherd in the worst type shall “tear” them for a limited time.
those ... cut off - “those perishing” [Septuagint], that is, those sick unto death, as if already cut off.
the young - The Hebrew is always used of human youths, who are really referred to under the image of the young of the flock. Ancient expositors [Chaldee Version, Jerome, etc.] translate, “the straying,” “the dispersed”; so Gesenius.
broken - the wounded.
standeth still - with faintness lagging behind.
tear ... claws - expressing cruel voracity; tearing off the very hoofs (compare Exo 10:26), giving them excruciating pain, and disabling them from going in quest of pasture.