John Trapp on Zechariah 11:4

Verſe 4. Thus ſaith the Lord my God, Feed the flock of ſlaughter] ſo lately pulled out of the jawes of thoſe lions ver. 3. with Am. 3.12. and yet deſtined to deſtruction by the Romans, thoſe Raptores Orbis (their former preſervation being but a reſervation to future miſchief) for their deſperate obſtinacy and incorrigibleneſſe.

feed them] ſaith God to the Prophets: for their ordinary ſhepheards have caſt off all care of their good. Tell them what evill will betide them, unleſſe they repent: forewarn them to flee from the wrath to come:Mat. 3. Luke 21.36. to take courſe that they may eſcape all theſe things that ſhall come to paſſe. O the goodneſſe of God to a nation ſo ſhameleſly, ſo lawleſly wicked! Beſides himſelf, the Shepheard of Iſrael that led Ioſeph like a flock Pſal. 80.1. and neglected no good office of ſeeking and feeding them, of handling and healing them, of waſhing them and watching over them &c. how carefull was he ever to raiſe them up ſeven ſhepheards and eight principal men, Mic. 5.5. till at length he ſent the man Chriſt Ieſus who is the chief of ten thouſand, the chief Shepheard as St. Peter calls him 1 Epiſt. 5.4. that One and only Shepheard, as Solomon Eccleſ. 12.11. that gteat Shepheard of the ſheep, as Paul Heb. 13.20. who came to look up the loſt ſheep of the houſe of Iſrael, whom (to move compaſſion and affection) here calleth the ſheep of ſlaughter, untill the time prefixed for their totall diſperſion, by reaſon of their ingratitude.