Take to yourself again the instrument—

Of a foolish shepherd—Osorius: "Yet He had enacted one tragedy, in which He…

The great difficulty of this passage, which is metaphorical and symbolic throughout, is that hardly any clue to its interpretation is given to us. …

Hard clubs and swords, and similar things, unfit for sheep.

And the Lord said to me
The Prophet Zechariah:

Take to you yet the instruments of a foolish sheph…

God, having shown the misery of this people in their being justly left by the Good Shepherd, shows their further misery in being abused by foolish …