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Zechariah 11:3-6. Wailing Shepherds. 4 March 2025

Zec 11:3 The sound of the wailing of shepherds!
Their majesty has been ravaged.
The sound of the roaring of young lions!
The pride of the Jordan has been ravaged.
4 Yahweh my God says this,
'Pasture the sheep for slaughter,
5 whose buyers kill them and go unpunished,
whose sellers say of them,
"Blessed be Yahweh; now I am rich!"
and whose own shepherds show them no pity.
6 For I shall show no further pity for the inhabitants of the country
-- Yahweh declares!
Instead,
I shall put everyone into the clutches of a neighbor,
into the clutches of the king.
They will crush the country
and I shall not rescue anyone from their clutches.'

Excerpt from THE NEW JERUSALEM BIBLE, copyright (c) 1985 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc. Reprinted by Permission.

For Slaughter

I struggle with understanding those verses. It sounds like God is angry.

Present Times

In my opinion, and in this time, in this world, God may stop treating the world with mercy. Because mankind himself does not treat the world and the neighbor with respect.

Prayer

Jesus, guide me and us into repentance. I do damage to your earth. I do damage to my fellow people.