Charles Ellicott Commentary Zechariah 11:16

"For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat [sheep], and will tear their hoofs in pieces." — Zechariah 11:16 (ASV)

The young one. —Better, the scattered. The foolish shepherd we understand to mean all the misrulers of Israel from the time of the decline of the glories of the Maccabean period to the day when they themselves declared We have no king but Cæsar. With the latter part of the verse compare Daniel 7:7, Daniel 7:19, Daniel 7:23, and contrast it with Ezekiel 34:16.