So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Chapter 11 Lecture One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Zechariah 11:1-3 1. Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 1. Aperi, Libane, protas tuas, et vorabit ignis cedros tuas: 2. Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 11:1-17
The prophet here is made a type of Christ, as the prophet Isaiah sometimes was; and the scope of these verses is to show that for judgment Christ came into this world (Joh 9:39), for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were, about the time of his coming, wretchedly corrupted and degenerated by the worldliness and hypocrisy of their rulers.
Commenting on Zechariah 11:4-14
And it was broken in that day,.... In right, the day Christ died; apparently, when the Gospel, the substance of it, was removed; and, in fact, at the time of Jerusalem's destruction: and so the poor of the flock; See Gill on Zac 11:7, that waited upon me; as servants on their masters; as clients on their patron; as beggars at the door for alms...