Charles Spurgeon Commentary Zechariah 11:8

"And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me." — Zechariah 11:8 (ASV)

There is a mutual loathing between God and ungodly men.

Those to whom Christ came were of this character: they loathed Him. And He could not endure them.

See how He cried out to them: "Woe unto you, Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; woe unto you teachers of the law."

There was a solemn division between them, and the people themselves followed their shepherds—and we are like them—so that they took up stones again to stone Him; and He, with many tears, was forced to pronounce woe upon them.

What a blessed thing it is when the Lord strengthens all His people, so that the weakest among them are as strong as that ruddy-faced youth who struck down Goliath, and the strongest of them are like the swift-winged angels of God, ready to do His bidding! Oh, that this church would be in that blessed state!

You remember how it is written that, when Israel came up out of Egypt, there was not one feeble person among their tribes. When will the whole Church of Christ reach that condition?

O you feeble ones, take hold of the promise now before us, and do not rest until it is fulfilled in you!

He that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.