Zechariah 11:14

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” ’ ”

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.