Albert Barnes Commentary Zechariah 11:6

"For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor`s hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them." — Zechariah 11:6 (ASV)

For I will no more pity - Therefore they were a flock of the slaughter, because God would have no pity on those who followed shepherds who had no Pity on them, but corrupted them; who did not enter themselves, and they hindered those who were entering (Luke 11:52).

The inhabitants of the land - “That land, of which he had been speaking,” Judea. “And lo.” God, by this word, “lo,” always commands attention to His great dealings with humanity; I, I, Myself, visibly interposing, will deliver man, the whole race of inhabitants, every one into his neighbor’s hand, by confusion and strife and hatred within, and into the hand of his king—him whom they chose and took as their own king, when they rejected Christ as their King, repudiating the title which Pilate gave Him, to move their pity.

Whereas He, their Lord and God, was their King, they formally denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go; they denied the Holy One and the Just (Acts 3:13–14), and said, We have no king but Caesar (John 19:15).

And they - The king outside and the fierce ones within, shall smite, bruise, crush in pieces, like a broken vessel, the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. Their captivity shall be without remedy or end.

Holy Scripture often says, there is no deliverer (Judges 18:28; 2 Samuel 14:6; Job 5:4; Psalms 7:3; Psalms 50:22; Psalms 71:11; Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 42:22; Hosea 5:14; Micah 5:7–8), or none can deliver out of My hand (Deuteronomy 32:39; Job 10:7; Psalms 50:22; Psalms 71:11; Isaiah 43:13; Daniel 8:4, 7). Or, since God delights in doing good, He—whether speaking as 'I' (Exodus 6:6; 2 Kings 20:6; Jeremiah 15:21; Jeremiah 39:17; Ezekiel 34:27) or referred to as 'He' (1 Samuel 7:3; Psalms 18:15; Psalms 72:12; 2 Kings 17:39; Isaiah 19:20; Isaiah 31:5; Job 5:19)—will deliver, or He delivered (Exodus 18:10; Joshua 24:10; Judges 6:9; 1 Samuel 10:18; 1 Samuel 14:10; 2 Samuel 22:1; Psalms 34:5, 18; Psalms 54:9; Ezra 8:31; Jeremiah 20:13) from the hands of the enemy, or their slavery, or their own fears, or afflictions, or the like.

God nowhere else says absolutely as here, I will not deliver. “Hear, O Jew,” says Jerome, “who hold out to yourself hopes most vain, and do not hear the Lord strongly asserting, I will not deliver them out of their hands, that your captivity among the Romans shall have no end.”

In the threatened captivity before they were carried to Babylon, the prophet foretold the restoration: here only it is said of Judah, as Hosea had said of Israel, that there should be no deliverer out of the hand of the king whom they had chosen.