Zechariah 11:8
Good News Translation
I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.

New Revised Standard Version
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Contemporary English Version
In less than a month, I became impatient with three shepherds who didn't like me, and I got rid of them.

New American Bible
In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

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Hosea 5:7 They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

Matthew 23:34-36 Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. . . .

Matthew 24:50,51 The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not and at an hour that he knoweth not: . . .

and my.

Leviticus 26:11,30,44 I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you: and my soul shall not cast you off. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:19 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.

Psalm 5:5 Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

Psalm 78:9 The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

Psalm 106:40 And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

Jeremiah 12:8 My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.

Jeremiah 14:21 Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.

Hebrews 10:38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

lothed them.

Isaiah 49:7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

Luke 12:50 And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished?

Luke 19:14 But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

John 15:18,23-25 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. . . .

Context
The Doomed Flock
7And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock. 8And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.9And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every one the flesh of his neighbour.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:30
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

Ezekiel 14:5
That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.

Ezekiel 16:45
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.

Hosea 4:6
My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Hosea 5:7
They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

Zechariah 11:7
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