Zechariah 11:15
Good News Translation
Then the LORD said to me, "Once again act the part of a shepherd, this time a worthless one.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.

Contemporary English Version
Next, the LORD said to me, "Act like a shepherd again--this time a worthless shepherd.

New American Bible
The LORD said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

a foolish.

Isaiah 6:10-12 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. . . .

Jeremiah 2:26,27 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets. . . .

Lamentations 2:14 Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.

Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Matthew 23:17 Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Luke 11:40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that which is within?

Context
Thirty Pieces of Silver
14And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might break the brotherhood between Juda and Israel. 15And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.16For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.…
Cross References
Isaiah 6:10
Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.

Ezekiel 13:3
Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit, and see nothing.

Zechariah 11:17
O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Zechariah 11:14
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